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The captain of an oil tanker that is allegedly part of Russia's "shadow fleet" will stand trial in France early next year over his alleged failure to justify the vessel's nationality, a French prosecutor has said.
It comes after the captain and the chief mate of the Boracay, a tanker currently immobilised off the country's Atlantic coast, were detained by the French authorities, shortly after an investigation was launched into the ship and its crew.
After being taken into police custody on Tuesday, the pair, who are both Chinese, were subsequently released, w
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