SINGAPORE: Eleven men, aged between 32 and 58, were arrested in the early hours of Sunday (Feb 22) for their suspected involvement in an illegal transaction of marine gas oil.
Officers from the police coast guard arrested the crew members of a Singapore-registered tugboat and a foreign-registered tugboat at about 1.40am in the sea off Selat Pauh, Singapore.
Preliminary investigations revealed that four crew members of the Singapore-registered tugboat allegedly misappropriated marine gas oil valued at about S$5,000 (US$3,900) without their company’s knowledge, the police said in a news release.
The oil was allegedly intended to be sold illegally to seven crew members of a foreign-registered tugboat for personal financial gain.
