US forces board another tanker in Indian Ocean after tracking it from Caribbean
The Veronica III, which sails under the Panamanian flag, is subject to US sanctions related to Iran, the US says
US military forces boarded another sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the vessel from the Caribbean Sea in an effort to target illicit oil connected to Venezuela, the Pentagon said on Sunday.
Several tankers fled the Venezuelan coast in the wake of the raid, including the ship that was boarded in the Indian Ocean overnight. The Defence Department said in a post on X that US forces boarded the Veronica III, conducting “a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding”.
“The vessel tried to defy President Trump’s quarantine – hoping to slip away,” the Pentagon said. “We tracked it from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, closed the distance and shut it down.”
Video posted by the Pentagon shows US troops boarding the tanker.