FALSE FLAG: Oil Tanker Seized by US Was Falsely Flying Guyana’s Flag, as More Action Is Expected Against Sanctioned Ships
More shady ships under sanction expected to be seized.
Two days ago (10), US troops intercepted and seized a sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean waters off the coast of Venezuela, taking the operations against the socialist dictatorship to a new level of escalations.
MOMENT US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela
Coast Guard rappel down off Black Hawks, STORM bridge
AG Bondi claims vessel ‘transported sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran’
Seizure ‘conducted safely and securely’@MTodayNews pic.twitter.com/hbET4uyMWQ
— MagaDet17 (@MagaDet17) December 10, 2025
So far, we’ve had limited information over the Nigerian ‘Skipper’ ship, other than the fact that it was sailing from Venezuela to Cuba, and that it was sanctioned for transporting both Venezuelan and Iranian oil.
But now, we find that the crew was navigating the tanker under false pretenses.
Reuters reported:
“Guyana’s maritime authority said on Wednesday that supertanker Skipper carrying Venezuelan oil, which was seized by the United States, was falsely flying Guyana’s flag.
‘The Maritime Administration Department has observed the proliferation and unacceptable trend of the unauthorized use of the Guyana flag by vessels that are not registered in Guyana’, it said in a statement.”
#GUYANA: The Guyana Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) has condemned the illegal use of the country’s flag after the United States seized a sanctioned oil tanker falsely claiming Guyanese registration in international waters off the coast of #Venezuela. pic.twitter.com/1LmWz3Vd4L
— CaribbeanNewsNetwork (@caribbeannewsuk) December 11, 2025
Reports arise that the US is preparing to intercept more ships transporting Venezuelan oil, increasing pressure on dictator Nicolas Maduro.
Another Reuters report:
“The seizure was the first interdiction of an oil cargo or tanker from Venezuela, which has been under U.S. sanctions since 2019. It came as the U.S. executes a large-scale military buildup in the southern Caribbean and as U.S. President Donald Trump pushes for Maduro’s ouster.
The latest U.S. action has put shipowners, operators and maritime agencies involved in transporting Venezuelan crude on alert, with many reconsidering whether to sail from Venezuelan waters in the coming days as planned, shipping sources said.
Further direct interventions by the U.S. are expected in the coming weeks targeting ships carrying Venezuelan oil that may also have transported oil from other countries targeted by U.S. sanctions, such as Iran, according to the sources familiar with the matter who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue.”
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