Iran’s judicial official ordered the return of the oil tanker and the IRGCalong with the Ministry of Intelligence carried out an operation to implement the judicial order, said Mojtaba Ghahremani, an official of the judiciary of Hormuzgan province.
The Iranian security forces have recently discovered the presence of the 10,000-ton Purity oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, so they retook the vessel, which has been moved to the Assaluyeh port in southern Iran, Ghahramani said.
The Purity was illegally rented to a foreign individual with forfeited documents about five years ago and its Iranian owners were deprived of their interests, he added.
Through investigations made by security organizations, it became clear that the foreign company used the vessel for fuel trafficking, so on February 7, 2022, the prosecutor of Bandar Abba, in southern Iran, ordered the tanker to be confiscated. The vessel is now at Asaluyeh Port to be unloaded.
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