5 Jailed for Scuttling Oil Tanker
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PIRAEUS, Greece — A Greek court today jailed a shipping agent for 11 years and four seamen for up to four years each for complicity in scuttling the oil tanker Salem in 1980 as part of an insurance fraud.
It upheld charges that the 92,228-ton Salem, which sank off Senegal, was sunk for the insurance and that by first unloading most of its Kuwaiti cargo in Durban, South Africa, the seamen had embezzled oil from its rightful owners, Shell.
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