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‘We’ve just seized a tanker’: US forces take over sanctioned, stateless VLCC off Venezuela

  • Vanguard Tech identify tanker as falsely flagged VLCC Skipper
  • Trump confirms a tanker was seized off Venezuela, saying it is the ‘largest one ever seized’
  • Skipper was sanctioned in 2022 in connection with oil shipments on behalf of the IRGC and Hezbollah
  • Video released by US Department of Justice shows US armed forces boarding the vessel from a helicopter

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The US seized a sanctioned, falsely flagged tanker off the coast of Venezuela in an escalation of the Trump administration’s pressure on the Maduro regime. US Attorney General Pamela Bondi said US forces executed a seizure warrant ‘for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran’

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