Ten men have been arrested in Singapore for their suspected involvement in an illegal transaction of marine gas oil (MGO).
In a joint operation with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), officers from the Police Coast Guard (PCG) arrested six crewmembers of a Singapore-registered tugboat (pictured) and another four crewmembers of a foreign-registered tugboat off Southern Tuas Basin.
The Singapore Police Force said that preliminary investigations revealed that the crew members of the Singapore-registered tugboat were believed to have misappropriated the MGO without their company’s knowledge by selling it to the crewmembers of a foreign-registered tugboat.
The police seized the tugboat and cash amounting to $8,000, as the case exhibits.
The crew members of the Singapore-registered tugboat have been charged with criminal breach of trust as servant, which carries an imprisonment term which may extend to 15 years and a fine.
The other four men have been charged with dishonestly receiving stolen property and face a maximum imprisonment term of five years, or a fine, or both.
