{"id":1204,"date":"2026-04-17T07:29:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:29:43","slug":"france-owner-of-seized-tanker-admits-no-evidence-of-flag-status-and-pays-fine-to-secure-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/04\/17\/france-owner-of-seized-tanker-admits-no-evidence-of-flag-status-and-pays-fine-to-secure-release\/","title":{"rendered":"France &#8211; owner of seized tanker admits no evidence of flag status and pays fine to secure release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/03\/23\/france-another-sanctioned-shadow-fleet-tanker-seized-in-mediterranean\/\">our earlier post<\/a>, the owner of the &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221; vessel the <em>MV Deyna<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/maritime-executive.com\/article\/france-fines-a-russia-linked-shadow-fleet-tanker-for-flying-a-false-flag\">agreed in a Marseilles Court<\/a> on Wednesday to pay an undisclosed fine for the release of the vessel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The owner admitted that it had no evidence to support the vessel&#8217;s alleged Mozambique flag status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Upon payment the vessel was released and is now reported to have left French waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to our earlier post, the owner of the &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221; vessel the MV Deyna, agreed in a Marseilles Court on Wednesday to pay an undisclosed fine for the release of the vessel. The owner admitted that it had no evidence to support the vessel&#8217;s alleged Mozambique flag status. Upon payment the vessel was released &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/04\/17\/france-owner-of-seized-tanker-admits-no-evidence-of-flag-status-and-pays-fine-to-secure-release\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;France &#8211; owner of seized tanker admits no evidence of flag status and pays fine to secure release&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,70],"tags":[12,48,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-infrastructure-and-transport","tag-fine","tag-france","tag-russia","tag-trade-sanctions"],"authors":[{"term_id":7,"user_id":656,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mhandley","display_name":"Mark Handley","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2023\/09\/handleymark-100x100.jpg","author_category":"","last_name":"Handley","first_name":"Mark","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html","description":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html\">Read Mark's bio.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}