The crude is often processed in makeshift refineries in the creeks before being sold as oil products. Bunkering – the theft of industrial quantities of oil – is a big business in Nigeria that funds criminal gangs and fuels corruption.
A judge in Delta state sentenced each of the suspects to 10 years in prison on each of nine charges against them.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said on Tuesday it had “arraigned the accused for conspiracy and illegal dealing in petroleum products”, on June 29, 2010.
“Investigations also showed that the Ghanaians came into the country illegally and, therefore, had no permission to sail in the Nigerian waters with a vessel that had no clearance, waybill or any document empowering it to transport petroleum products,” the commission’s statement added. Nigeria’s military said on Monday it had detained a small oil tanker and arrested 46 people trying to ship illegally refined oil products.
Source: http:///nine-oil-thieves-jailed-for-90-years-each-nigeria-newstoday
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