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"The captain, a Russian citizen named as Aleksandr Matveev, was later sentenced to four months in prison and fined Rp200 million (£10,800) after being found gui
by acdanger 8y ago
"The captain, a Russian citizen named as Aleksandr Matveev, was later sentenced to four months in prison and fined Rp200 million (£10,800) after being found guilty of illegal fishing. The other Russian and Ukranian offers were deported to their home countries."
That seems an extraordinarily light punishment for an operation that looted tens of millions of dollars worth of fish and caused untold harm along the way. I can't imagine would-be pirates being much deterred.
- sumoboy 8y agoSign me up, I'll take that offer for millions and only 4 months of prison. He's probably just one of dozens who hasn't been caught yet.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoThe situation won’t change until perpetrators are charged in the country they’re looting fish stocks from, jailed for a significant amount of time, and their vessels seized and broken down for scrap.
- anigbrowl 8y agoOr just sunk.
- wavefunction 8y agoAnd the foreign companies that employ them bombarded from space with a mass driver.
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- TeMPOraL 8y agoJust passing the buck up and jailing the executive would likely be enough, but mass drivers are cool too.