{"id":1240,"date":"2026-06-04T10:05:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:05:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:05:03","slug":"france-captain-of-the-sanctioned-tagor-tanker-arrested-and-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/06\/04\/france-captain-of-the-sanctioned-tagor-tanker-arrested-and-under-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"France &#8211; captain of the sanctioned Tagor tanker arrested and under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Further to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/06\/01\/france-seizure-of-sanctioned-oil-tanker-the-tagor\/\">our recent post<\/a> on the seizure of the shadow fleet tanker, the <em>Tagor<\/em>, it has now been announced that that the vessel&#8217;s captain was arrested on 2 June, and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/france\/article\/2026\/06\/04\/france-releases-russian-captain-of-detained-moscow-linked-tanker_6754131_7.html\">released from detention<\/a> yesterday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The captain has not been charged but investigations are ongoing. The prosecutor&#8217;s in the town of Brest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20260603-france-arrests-russian-captain-of-moscow-linked-oil-tanker\">is reported<\/a> to have said the captain may face a custodial sentence of up to a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to our recent post on the seizure of the shadow fleet tanker, the Tagor, it has now been announced that that the vessel&#8217;s captain was arrested on 2 June, and was released from detention yesterday. The captain has not been charged but investigations are ongoing. The prosecutor&#8217;s in the town of Brest is reported &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/06\/04\/france-captain-of-the-sanctioned-tagor-tanker-arrested-and-under-investigation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;France &#8211; captain of the sanctioned Tagor tanker arrested and under investigation&#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":[48,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-infrastructure-and-transport","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","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","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=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}