According to the Associated Press on January 11, some "unauthorized" people in military uniforms boarded an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on the 11th.
According to the report, the information was revealed by a consulting agency run by the British side and a private intelligence company, and the details of the seizure of the ship that occurred in the Middle East shipping lanes are not yet known.
According to the British maritime operations office, the incident occurred in the early morning of the 11th in the waters between Oman and Iran, which is a necessary passage in and out of the Strait of Hormuz.
According to the report, the British Office of Maritime Operations said it had received a report from the tanker's safety manager, who had heard "unknown voices in the tanker". The Office of Maritime Operations said it had failed to make contact with the tanker, and that the people on board the tanker were dressed in "black army style" and were masked.
Ambri, a private intelligence firm, said "six servicemen" boarded the tanker, named St. Nicholas. The company also said that the men covered the ship's surveillance cameras as soon as they boarded the tanker.
The report notes that the tanker used to be named "Suez Rajan".
As previously reported by Reuters, the Suez Rajan was seized by the U.S. Department of Justice in April 2023, when it was carrying more than 980,000 barrels of Iran**. After waiting for two and a half months in the waters off Texas in the United States, the Suez Rajan unloaded the ** batch in August 2023. Legal documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice show that the company to which the Suez Rajan belongs pleaded guilty in April 2023 and was fined $2.5 million. (Compiled by Pan Jian).