{"id":60500,"date":"2025-12-10T23:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/what-we-know-about-the-skipper-the-oil-tanker-seized-by-the-u-s-near-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T23:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:59:14","slug":"what-we-know-about-the-skipper-the-oil-tanker-seized-by-the-u-s-near-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/what-we-know-about-the-skipper-the-oil-tanker-seized-by-the-u-s-near-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"What we know about The Skipper, the oil tanker seized by the U.S. near Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The U.S. <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/u-s-seized-oil-tanker-off-the-coast-of-venezuela-trump-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">seized a 20-year-old oil tanker<\/a><\/span> called The Skipper off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday, three sources familiar with the matter told CBS News, after months of heightened tensions between the Trump administration and Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The seizure was initially announced by President Trump during an unrelated White House event on Wednesday. Here&#8217;s what we know about the boat and the operation:\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Seizure involved special operations forces and 2 helicopters<\/h2>\n<p>The operation to seize the tanker began at about 6 a.m. Wednesday, after the boat had just left port in Venezuela, according to a senior military official and a source familiar with the operation.<\/p>\n<p>The mission was launched from the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/uss-gerald-ford-aircraft-carrier-arrives-caribbean-buildup-venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">USS Gerald R. Ford<\/a><\/span>, an aircraft carrier that has been in the area for weeks as part of a broader buildup of U.S. forces in the region, the sources told CBS News.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It involved two helicopters, special operations forces, 10 members of the U.S. Coast Guard and 10 Marines, the sources said. The boarding team was composed of the Coast Guard&#8217;s Maritime Security and Response Team, an elite maritime interdiction unit based in Chesapeake, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Pam Bondi posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/agpambondi\/status\/1998875795151024337?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">45-second video of the operation<\/a> on X, showing armed personnel descending onto the vessel&#8217;s deck from a helicopter. She said the U.S. executed a seizure warrant on the vessel, and that the tanker was &#8220;used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the U.S. government \u2014 particularly the Justice Department and Homeland Security Investigations \u2014 has seized sanctioned oil tankers before, conducting a fast-rope boarding from helicopters at sea is rare, though it&#8217;s something the boarding team trains for, U.S. officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was led by the Coast Guard, supported by Navy forces, the officials told CBS News. Any such operation would legally require the Coast Guard to be the lead agency because the authorities used for these seizures fall under Coast Guard jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<h2>Tanker was sanctioned by Treasury 3 years ago<\/h2>\n<p>The Skipper was <a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/jy1076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sanctioned<\/a> by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2022 for its alleged role in an oil smuggling network that helped fund the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group backed by Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The ship \u2014 known as Adisa in 2022 \u2014 is among the vessels controlled by sanctioned Russian oil magnate Viktor Artemov, the Treasury said in a statement. At the time, the Treasury said Artemov transported Iranian oil using an expansive network of ships that were often registered in obscure ways with the intention of skirting U.S. restrictions on Iranian petroleum exports.<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury&#8217;s 2022 sanctions announcement didn&#8217;t mention Venezuela. But oil trade between Iran and Venezuela <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/57184c74c507fed89af6a732ce4592c2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">has been reported<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-middle-east-iran-venezuela-4316c276345fd5e206e387c5f8db5321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">for years<\/a>, drawing <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-international-news-middle-east-latin-america-miami-e5514c47f5fbf3f9436897072cf37491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pushback<\/a> from the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The tanker is controlled by Nigeria-based management company Thomarose Global Ventures LTD and owned by a firm linked to Artemov, according to publicly available data.<\/p>\n<p>The ship is 20 years old, initially sailing under the name The Toyo in 2005. At 333 meters (about 1,092 feet) in length, it was one of the largest tankers in the world at the time it was built.<\/p>\n<p>Bondi said the boat was sanctioned &#8220;due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This seizure, completed off the coast of Venezuela, was conducted safely and securely \u2014 and our investigation alongside the Department of Homeland Security to prevent the transport of sanctioned oil continues,&#8221; the attorney general said.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/what-we-know-oil-tanker-the-skipper-seized-us-near-venezuela\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. seized a 20-year-old oil tanker called The Skipper off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday, three sources familiar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1141],"class_list":["post-60500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-venezuela"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What we know about The Skipper, the oil tanker seized by the U.S. near Venezuela - World News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The U.S. seized a 20-year-old oil tanker called The Skipper off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday, three sources told CBS News. 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