Modern Wisdom

#478 - Kit Chellel - The Wild Hijacking Of A $100 Million Supertanker

May 26, 2022

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What Do You Think Will Happen in the Near Future?

03:14

What's Happening to a Ship?

01:54

The Shipping Industry Is So Dodgy That You're Not Going to Fight Them

02:08

Introduction

5min

Shipping Is Still a Thing

2min

What's Happening at Sea?

2min

How to Stop a Pirate Ship

4min

How to Stop a Pirate Ship From Passing Through the Suez Canal

2min

How Do Pirates Get Onboard a Ship?

2min

What Happens Next?

2min

What the Hell Happened?

2min

Lloyds of London

3min

10.

Getting a Marine Surveyor to Assess the Damage

2min

11.

What's Happened to the Ship?

4min

12.

Is There Anything Interesting About Yemen or Tha?

4min

13.

What's Happening to a Ship?

2min

14.

The Boat After Mocket's Burnt Out Car

2min

15.

Dodgy Greek Salvage Guy, Vasilius Vergos

3min

16.

Is This the Owner of the Bralante Risk Taker?

3min

17.

Do You Know What Happens Next?

2min

18.

The Shipping Industry Is So Dodgy That You're Not Going to Fight Them

2min

19.

Is There Something Up Here?

3min

20.

What Happened to Super Mario?

2min

21.

David Mocket's Death

2min

22.

The Blante Virtuoso's Death

2min

23.

Am, What's He Like?

3min

24.

What Do You Think Will Happen in the Near Future?

3min

25.

How to Keep Up to Date With Your Work

2min

Kit Chellel is a senior reporter at Bloomberg news, an investigative journalist and an author.

The Brilliante Virtuoso was a Suezmax Supertanker. The largest class of ship that can go through the Suez Canal. It had a million barrels of oil on it and was supposed to be escorted by a security team. It was hijacked and burned by Somali pirates, nothing was stolen and the owners claimed $100 million for insurance.

The British investigator is killed overseas, a Greek millionaire threatens people in court and no one can work out what's happened or how to discover who has committed the crimes. And that's just where the story starts...

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