Sinking admitted
A Greek, ship’s master» who admitted sinking a “ huge oil tanker in what» has been called the big- * gest shipping fraud in his-« tory has been jailed for 12 * years on charges of caus- ” ing a shipwreck, and em-» bezzlement. Dimitris" Georgoulis, aged 49, was « master of the 92,228-ton “ Salem, which sank off West Africa in January, ” 1980, shortly after it had “ delivered 180,000 tonnes a of oil from Kuwait at “ Durban, South Africa, in « defiance of sanctions. He " said he would, appeal the ■« sentence. —Piraeus," Greece. * • -- I ?
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Press, 19 February 1986, Page 24
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