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Home » The World Awaits Trial Of Crew Of Heroic Idun In A Nigerian Court

The World Awaits Trial Of Crew Of Heroic Idun In A Nigerian Court

by Joshua
January 27, 2023
in Maritime safety

Twenty-six men from India and Sri Lanka on BP-chartered very large crude carrier being held under armed guard on ship after being charged last November.

Nigeria is using the case to further its domestic political agenda by holding up the Heroic Idun as one of its successes in the fight against piracy and oil theft despite international condemnation

The first of 26 crew detained on board the very large crude carrier Heroic Idun (IMO: 9858058) will appear before a Nigerian court in connection with an alleged attempted oil theft and faking a piracy attack.

The Nigerian government and navy are pursuing the high-profile case against the Sri Lankan and Indian men despite widespread international condemnation from shipowners, managers, charterers, flag state and insurers.

Crew on board the Marshall Islands-flagged VLCC — which is owned by Ray Carrier Carriers, operated by Norway’s OSM Ship Management and sub-chartered to oil major BP — were accused of evading the navy on August 8 after being ordered to load a cargo of oil from the Akpo terminal.

Tanker earlier held in Malabo for three months without charge after being detained by Equatoguinean navy

The court appearance which was expected to have been early in January, will be the first since the crew were charged under Nigeria’s anti-piracy laws on November 7. They will appear in the federal court at Port Harcourt in two groups, with the second on January 11, according to lawyers representing them.

The appearance will be to seek an adjournment and the expectation is to then see whether it is possible to resolve the matter without going to trial. The 26 men are held under armed guard on board the Heroic Idun.

The ship fled Nigerian waters in August after being approached by the navy, which the crew mistook for pirates, and the incident was reported as a possible piracy attack.

The Equatorial Guinea navy detained the VLCC at the request of Nigeria and held the men without charge for more than 80 days, despite the payment of a $2m fine for entering the Economic Zone without flying that country’s flag.

In what lawyers called an “unlawful rendition” the government of Equatorial Guinea then released the vessel into the hands of the Nigerian navy and it was forced to sail to the Bonny Terminal in Nigeria in early November under armed guard, where the vessel has been ever since.

Nigeria’s navy claims that the VLCC did not have permission to load, even though evidence showing underlying export licences was provided. The navy has used the case to further its domestic political agenda by holding up the Heroic Idun as one of its successes in the fight against piracy and oil theft.

Nigeria lost nearly $2bn in oil theft in the first eight months of 2022, according to an ad hoc Senate committee report published in November, most of it from pipeline sabotage.

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