#478 - Kit Chellel - The Wild Hijacking Of A $100 Million Supertanker

<p>Kit Chellel is a senior reporter at Bloomberg news, an investigative journalist and an author.</p> <p>The Brilliante Virtuoso was a Suezmax Supertanker. The largest class of ship that can go through the Suez Canal. It had a million barrels of oil on it and was supposed to be escorted by a security team. It was hijacked and burned by Somali pirates, nothing was stolen and the owners claimed $100 million for insurance.</p> <p>The British investigator is killed overseas, a Greek millionaire threatens people in court and no one can work out what's happened or how to discover who has committed the crimes. And that's just where the story starts...</p> <p><strong style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> Sponsors:</strong></p> <p class="p1">Join the Modern Wisdom Community to connect with me & other listeners - <a href= "https://modernwisdom.locals.com/">https://modernwisdom.locals.com/</a></p> <p class="p1">Get up to 47% discount on all products site-wide from MyProtein at <a href="https://bit.ly/proteinwisdom"><span class= "s1">https://bit.ly/proteinwisdom</span></a> (use code: MODERNWISDOM)</p> <p class="p1">Protect yourself from identity theft online with Aura. Try 14 days for free at <a href= "http://aura.com/modernwisdom"><span class= "s1">http://aura.com/modernwisdom</span></a> (discount automatically applied)</p> <p class="p1">Get 15% discount on the amazing 6 Minute Diary at <a href="https://bit.ly/diarywisdom"><span class= "s1">https://bit.ly/diarywisdom</span></a> (use code MW15) (USA - search Amazon and use 15MINUTES)</p> <p class="p1"><strong style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> Extra Stuff:</strong></p> <p>Buy Dead In The Water - <a href= "https://amzn.to/3PsfI57">https://amzn.to/3PsfI57</a> </p> <p><a href="https://chriswillx.com/books/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Get my free Reading