Vanguard (Lagos)
18 July 2008
FOURTEEN Filipinos, suspected to be international oil bunkerers, arrested last week, by the Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger-Delta with 150-160 metric tonnes of stolen crude oil at the Bight of Benin in Bayelsa State have spilled the beans on how they carry out illegal oil bunkering in Nigeria with their Nigerian accomplices, according to the task force.
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Bunkering is rampant not only in Nigeria but also in the mid east. In Nigeria British mercenaries and some American and French former soldiers work for Glencore owners subsidiaries, Swiss secret companies formed for each shipmentt,
Marc Rich has been engaged in this trade with former Israeli operatives including Mike Harrari who with Rich incorporates these ghost shelf companies overnight for each shipment. Ships are typically Greek owned rust buckets than can be scuttled after each shipment gets through.
Europe has no real conscience and neither has the US in this business. As long as the oil gets through its all that matters.
Nigerians will only get their fair share through the kidnapping and armed resistance to these otherwise fancicully named 'internaitonal oil traders' supported clandestinely by their governments.
It is not difficult to buy bunkered oil. Nigerian embassy officials in many western countries can provide you with details of Nigerian agents who arrange to sell bunkered oil.