SINGAPORE: 11 men charged over biggest oil theft in country’s history

Authorities in Singapore have charged 11 men to court over the biggest oil heist recorded in the country which occurred at Shell’s biggest refinery.

Security operatives initially arrested 17 suspects following the oil heist but only 11 of them have been charged while the six others who had not been charged were still under investigation.

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According to court papers, nine Singaporeans were charged over the theft and two Vietnamese nationals were charged with receiving stolen goods, transferred from Pulau Bukom to a vessel named Prime South.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc, which first reported the theft to authorities in August, said in a news release that the arrests included “a limited number of Shell employees” and that it anticipated “a short delay in the supply operations at Bukom.”

 

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