"We received a signal on the presence of a ship transporting an illegal cargo of oil near Zuwara," 160 kilometres (100 miles) west of Tripoli, on Wednesday, Captain Taoufik Mohamad Assakir, operations chief for central Libya, told AFP.
The ship loaded with five million litres (one million gallons) of oil was boarded 14 nautical miles off Zuwara and diverted to the naval base in Tripoli, he said.
The captain said its 12 Russian crew, including a woman, were detained.
In March 2014, the US Navy intercepted and boarded the North Korean tanker "Morning Glory" loaded with an illegal oil shipment in the eastern Mediterranean and escorted it back to Libya, although it later escaped back to sea.
Libya has been plunged into insecurity and chaos since dictator Moamer Kadhafi's ouster in a 2011 revolution, torn between an administration in Tripoli and the internationally recognised government in the oil-rich country's far east.
The Tripoli authority controls vessels monitoring most of the country's Mediterranean coast except for sections of the far east.
AFP
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Late on Wednesday, it was reported that forces loyal to the Tripoli-based Libyan government, which is not recognized internationally, had detained 11 Russian crew members from the Mekhanik Chebotarev oil tanker, when it was allegedly en route to the northwestern Libyan port of Zuwarah.
Moscow has called for the immediate release of the Russian oil tanker captured off the Libyan coast, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday.
"We consider the capture of the Russian vessel and its crew illegal and demand [their] immediate and unconditional release from the authorities in Tripoli," Zakharova said...
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