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France: chinese captain sentenced as EU cracks down on Russian Shadow Fleet

Summary by MariTimesCrimes
The French court sentenced Chinese tanker captain Zhangjie Chen to one year in prison in absentia, underscoring a growing European resolve to curb Russia’s “shadow fleet.” Chen, 39, was convicted after French special forces boarded the un‑flagged vessel **Boracay** off Saint‑Nazaire in September 2025, where the ship was found carrying roughly $100 million of Russian oil from Primorsk. The ruling highlights Paris’s determination to enforce sancti…
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MariTimesCrimes broke the news in on Wednesday, April 1, 2026.
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