A Nigerian court on Friday jailed 14 foreign sailors from Russia, Ukraine, Philippine and Japan between two and five years for unlawful dealing in petroleum products in the country.

The federal high court in Lagos found the suspects guilty of illegally transporting 1,738 tonnes of crude oil and some 4,500 tonnes of petrol, also called gasoline, in their vessel MT Anukpet Emerald.
Judge Ibrahim Buba sentenced 11 of the 14 foreigners to two years' jail or alternatively pay a fine of two million naira (10,000 dollars) each.

The remaining three -- all Russians -- were given five years each in absentia without an option of fine for jumping bail.

The court also ordered that the vessel and the seized petroleum products be forfeited to the Nigerian government.

The Nigerian navy arrested the sailors and the vessel in February 2015 and handed the case to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for prosecution.

It was not immediately clear if the products onboard the vessel were to be taken out of Nigeria and if so, to which country they were headed.

Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer loses billions of dollars each year from the theft of crude from sabotaged pipelines and illegal refining of oil products.

The oil is sold on the black market, depriving the continent's most populous state of an estimated $6 billion a year in lost revenue.

Convictions for oil smuggling are common but in most cases the offenders get away with a fine.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/nigeria-jails-14-foreigners-oil-smuggling/

After one year in court
Anyway Say no to corruption

What else can was say than Baba God thank you? Yeye expatriates pulling Ninja backward. jail jail jail

Even if we don't lose the $6bn yearly, na person go still pocket am.....soft!!!!

1,738 tonnes of crude = 1,738,000kg
1,738,000kg of crude = 1,975,000litres
1,975,000litres = 12, 422 barrels.

As at time of arrest,
12,422 barrels = 12,422 x $54 = $670,788

4,500 tonnes of PMS = 4,500,000kg.
4,500,000 kg = 5,113,636.4 litres

At time of arrest,
5,113,636 litres = 5,113,636.4 x N86/197 = $2,232,349.

Total = $2,903,137 worth of oil for one trip.

And they were just fined $10,000 after one year of wasting time in court
So tell me why they won't continue to steal d oil.

And Nigerians are given life imprisonment or shot by firing squad when they're nabbed in these other countries.

Even d crude they don't manage to steal, after it gets sold, our own imbbeccile politicians will be here waiting to embezzle d money.
And when charged, will hire a crowd of idiotic SANs to defend dem.

Oil bunkery is d way to go

be ready for RUSSIAN nukes

Nigerian prison is like death sentence in their countries.

Well, they can mange the water-water soup and black eba there. RIP idiots.

guys that are into oil businesses are business tycoon. so, no matter the fine placed on them, they would always get away from it as swift as the speed of light..









#team..potential..oil..baron

wow!!!
great news

common Tanzania here they dey jail foreign offenders like say no tomorrow
Nigeria go dey leave them anyhow

nice one!!!

I doubt the Russians are still in this country, since last year February, and Russia will never extradite them to Nigeria to face persecution.

Japan will most likely make a deal with the Nigerian government to release their citizens. At the end of the day the only ones most like to face jail term will be the Nigerians involved.

I sometimes wish Nigeria can act like North Korea and deal with defaulters without blinking an eyelid.


Soundcloud, tropical house and Kygo take the pains away.

Which JAIL? KIRIKIRI OR ALAGBON?







Foreigners in ALAGBON?


That's DEATH SENTENCE!

Yes that's a good one. Its high time we stop worshipping these white men. They should know that they can't come and exploit us and geraway wiv it. Bomboclaaaas!

Orji uzor kalu's case suddenly opened after many years,

This theft now opened after a year

So why is EFCC doing this now

The jail term to small na

GGOOD

Good for them.

Let the jailing begin

Good!

they have finally grown the balls to jail white foreigner ..buhari is working.. ..jonathan wont try it during his life time

adf

$10,000 alternative!!!!!! Am going into this biz...I can afford $10,000

datz gud for them,why should we always expatriate them wen they bearly do d same for us here,...punishment for crime committed in dis country should be served in this country,....i bliv this will send a strong message out to others

Why the alternative fine of 2million?, when they are suppose to serve the jail term.

If it where a Nigerian in a foreign country caught in dis kind of crime, i knw the jail term would have been like frm 30 yrs without alternative.

Nice one

see fine option

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AIN'T NOBODY ABOVE THE LAW,JAIL THEM ALL,IF IT WERE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES IT MAY BE BEHEADING OR LIFE JAIL.

after reading......,MEN NIGERIA IS A F.....CKED UP COUNTRY,WHAT EXAMPLE ARE U GIVING TO OTHERS SO AS NOT TO REPEAT THE CRIME..10K DOLLARS

henrydadon:
they have finally grown the balls to jail white foreigner ..buhari is working..jonathan wont try it during his life time

shorop who told you

This is good, those oyinbo should not take our country for granted.