Piracy

Stephen Platt

Chapter 6 in Criminal Capital, 2015, pp 104-120 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In October 2009, in a well-publicised incident, retired British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler were hijacked by pirates as they took a sailing holiday near the Seychelles on their yacht the Lynn Rival. Their boat was boarded by a group of pirates from Somalia who forced them to board a nearby ship, the Kota Wajar, leaving the Lynn Rival adrift. The Kota Wajar herself had been hijacked less than a fortnight earlier, and the pirates had set her to use as a ‘mother ship’ from which they could launch attacks, extending their operational range by many hundreds of miles from the Somali coastline where they had originated from. The crew of the Kota Wajar, a cargo ship originally sailing from Singapore to Kenya, had been captured, and a ransom payment had been demanded from the ship’s owners.

Keywords: Banking System; Bank Account; Cook Island; Ship Owner; Maritime Piracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137337306_6

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