The practice, known as “illegal bunkering” (in its legal form, bunkering is the act of loading fuel onto a large ship’s on-deck fuel bunker), involves tapping into a pipeline, filling plastic jerry cans with crude oil, and taking the oil away in speedboats to awaiting barges, which in turn sell the product to large oceangoing tankers, who then sell it to refineries in neighboring countries, such as Ivory Coast, at a considerable profit.
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