Ransom
A ransom was set at $2 million, and the Iranian news channel Press TV said that the United States, believing that the ship may contain uranium, offered $7 million to board and search the ship. (US officials reportedly would not comment.) At one point the Sunday Times reported that the IRISL paid $200,000 in the first of a series of ransom payments, but the Iranian company denied the claim. The ship "was supposed to be released, but now they are saying the $200,000 was for facilitation only. They want more money for the ransom," said Andrew Mwangura, of the Kenyan-based East African Seafarers' Assistance Programme.
According to Lloyd's List, the IRISL ultimately paid $2.5 million to free the ship.
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Famous quotes containing the word ransom:
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He had a thousand times remembered sin.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)
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