#478 - Kit Chellel - The Wild Hijacking Of A $100 Million Supertanker
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
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🗓️ 26 May 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | My guest today is Kit Shelll. He's a senior reporter at Bloomberg News and investigative journalist |
| 0:05.6 | and an author. The brillianté virtuoso was a Suez Mac super tanker, the largest class of ship |
| 0:12.0 | that can go through the Suez Canal. It had a million barrels of oil on it and was supposed to be |
| 0:16.9 | escorted by a security team. It was hijacked and burned by Somali pirates. Nothing would stolen |
| 0:22.8 | and the owners claimed $100 million for insurance. The British investigator is killed overseas. |
| 0:27.7 | A Greek millionaire threatens people in court and no one can work out what's happened or how to |
| 0:33.2 | discover who was committed the crimes. And that is just where the story begins. Kit has been |
| 0:38.7 | researching this for nearly five years and the story is wild. It's so phenomenal. It's similar to |
| 0:47.8 | the episode with Mark Freestone about psychopaths last week. I just enjoy some low stakes listening. |
| 0:53.6 | You don't need to remember this for your morning routine tomorrow. You can sit back and enjoy a |
| 0:58.1 | great investigative reporter telling a super interesting story about wild corruption and piracy. |
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