The Hijacking Of A $100 Million Supertanker - Kit Chellel | Modern Wisdom Podcast 478

Kit Chellel is a senior reporter at Bloomberg news, an investigative journalist and an author.

The Brilliante Virtuoso was a Suezmax Supertanker. The largest class of ship that can go through the Suez Canal. It had a million barrels of oil on it and was supposed to be escorted by a security team. It was hijacked and burned by Somali pirates, nothing was stolen and the owners claimed $100 million for insurance.

The British investigator is killed overseas, a Greek millionaire threatens people in court and no one can work out what's happened or how to discover who has committed the crimes. And that's just where the story starts...

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00:00 Intro
00:30 Is Piracy Still Relevant?
04:53 How Modern-Day Pirates Operate
10:44 Hijacking the Supertanker
16:03 The Wild West of Salvage Laws
25:18 What Yemen Was Like
29:18 Reigniting the Investigation
34:39 Suspicious Characters
39:51 Seeking Justice in a Dangerous Business
54:14 Current State of the Investigation
57:38 Where to Find Kit

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