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Lagos - 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 tons of crude oil and some 4 500 tons 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 $10,000 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 on-board 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

m.news24.com/news24/Africa/News/nigeria-jails-14-foreigners-for-oil-smuggling-20160318

I wonder who deceived them by telling them that they can do anyhow on our soil and get away with it. Hope their finger prints and smug shots were taken too?

chocolateme:
I wonder who deceived them by telling them that they can do anyhow on our soil and get away with it. Hope their finger prints and smug shots were taken too?

of cus jonathan tell them they can do anyhow,so dnt blame them,thank GOD this is a new era,old thing has pass away

I hope thy are not Russian maffias

tsephanyah:
I hope thy are not Russian maffias

My dear even if it is Donald Trump of US that dis obey our law,this current administration (Baba)will deal with him. A new sheriff in town,u broke our laws,we deal with you simple.

God bless Nigeria.

Ayoemrys:
of cus jonathan tell them they can do anyhow,so dnt blame them,thank GOD this is a new era,old thing has pass away

This man's name still dey give you HBP

mynd1:
My dear even if it is Donald Trump of US that dis obey our law,this current administration (Baba)will deal with him. A new sheriff in town,u broke our laws,we deal with you simple.

God bless Nigeria.

owkee,,, I will have write something against baba, if it was in the past, anyway I hope he will deliver what he promised to Nigerians..

tsephanyah:
owkee,,, I will have write something against baba, if it was in the past, anyway I hope he will deliver what he promised to Nigerians..

lol. Slow and steady wins the race my dear. It's not by starting with gra gra and at the end nothing to show for it. Worry not,things will get better that's for sure

Nobody is above the law. Whether local or foreign.

HOPE THE FOREIGNERS ARE NOT AFRICANS??





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mynd1:
lol. Slow and steady wins the race my dear. It's not by starting with gra gra and at the end you have nothing to show for it. Worry not,things will get better that's for sure

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Ok. Thanks!