{"id":21073,"date":"2026-06-14T02:54:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T21:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/11-indian-sailors-convicted-in-nigeria-cocaine-case-vessel-fined-5-3-million-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T02:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T21:24:44","slug":"11-indian-sailors-convicted-in-nigeria-cocaine-case-vessel-fined-5-3-million-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/11-indian-sailors-convicted-in-nigeria-cocaine-case-vessel-fined-5-3-million-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Indian sailors convicted in Nigeria cocaine case; vessel fined $5.3 million | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131708767,imgsize-16764,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"11 Indian sailors convicted in Nigeria cocaine case; vessel fined $5.3 million\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: 11 Indian sailors were convicted by a Nigerian court in a cocaine trafficking case on Saturday, while the merchant vessel on which they served has been ordered to pay $5.3 million in restitution to the Nigerian government.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>&#8220;Nigeria is no longer a safe corridor for cocaine or any other illicit substance,&#8221; the NDLEA statement read, PTI reported.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>The sailors were arrested about six months ago by operatives of Nigeria\u2019s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over allegations that 31.5 kilograms of cocaine had been smuggled into the country from the Marshall Islands through the Apapa seaport in Lagos, according to an agency statement issued on Thursday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>Justice Joseph Chukwujekwu Aneke convicted the ship\u2019s master and 10 crew members under provisions of the NDLEA Act. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>In addition to the vessel&#8217;s $5.3 million penalty, the court directed the three principal officers to pay USD 100,000 each, while the remaining crew members were ordered to pay $50,000 each. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>All 11 defendants were also fined 100,000 Nigerian naira.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/11-indian-sailors-convicted-in-nigeria-cocaine-case-vessel-fined-5-3-million\/articleshow\/131708633.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: 11 Indian sailors were convicted by a Nigerian court in a cocaine trafficking case on Saturday, while the merchant vessel on which they served has been ordered to pay $5.3 million in restitution to the Nigerian government.&#8220;Nigeria is no longer a safe corridor for cocaine or any other illicit substance,&#8221; the NDLEA statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}