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Piracy

In: Criminal Capital

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  • Stephen Platt

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In October 2009, in a well-publicised incident, retired British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler were hijacked by pirates as they took a sailing holiday near the Seychelles on their yacht the Lynn Rival. Their boat was boarded by a group of pirates from Somalia who forced them to board a nearby ship, the Kota Wajar, leaving the Lynn Rival adrift. The Kota Wajar herself had been hijacked less than a fortnight earlier, and the pirates had set her to use as a ‘mother ship’ from which they could launch attacks, extending their operational range by many hundreds of miles from the Somali coastline where they had originated from. The crew of the Kota Wajar, a cargo ship originally sailing from Singapore to Kenya, had been captured, and a ransom payment had been demanded from the ship’s owners.

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  • Stephen Platt, 2015. "Piracy," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Criminal Capital, chapter 6, pages 104-120, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-33730-6_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137337306_6
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