A French court will consider whether it has jurisdiction over the Chinese captain of an oil tanker who failed to follow orders from the French navy off the coast of Brittany in October. With no clear national registration, the Boracay is reportedly part of Russia’s so-called ‘shadow fleet’, which allows Moscow to circumvent Western sanctions to export its oil.
French authorities opened an investigation in October on suspicion that the Boracay, was sailing under a false flag, registered in Benin.
