据报道，周一，阿尔巴尼亚警方拦截了一艘疑似装载俄罗斯石油的利比里亚旗船舶。

据估计，此次缴获的22500吨石油的市场价值超过4000万欧元。

据有关部门通报，22名船员在此次行动中被逮捕。

警方称，这艘船从阿塞拜疆启航，声称从希腊的卡拉马塔(Kalamata)装载了另一艘船的石油。

尽管有此证明，阿尔巴尼亚有关当局仍然坚信，石油来自俄罗斯。

据悉，阿尔巴尼亚支持欧盟，支持西方因俄罗斯与乌克兰的战争而对俄罗斯实施的制裁。

这并不是阿尔巴尼亚境内第一起石油走私事件。

在过去的几年里，有几艘船只试图将利比亚的石油运送到阿尔巴尼亚。

据报道，2022年9月，阿尔巴尼亚海岸警卫队扣押了一艘名为“Queen Majeda”的油轮，船上装有约2275吨石油。

它是在利比亚的班加西供应的，该地区不受国际承认的利比亚政府的控制。

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英文原文

In the town of Durres, Albanian police, with other law enforcement agencies, reportedly stopped a Liberian-registered vessel loaded with suspected oil from Russia on Monday. 

The operation ended with the arrest of the 22 crew members, relevant authorities informed. The 22,500 tons of seized oil have an estimated market value of over 40 million euros.

The ship set sail from Azerbaijan and had claimed to have been loaded with oil in Greece’s Kalamata from another vessel, the police said.

The alibi was inadequate to convince relevant Albanian authorities, who firmly believed that the oil came originally from Russia. Albania has backed the EU, and Western sanctions levied against Russia due to its war against Ukraine.

This was not the first instance of trafficking petroleum items in Albania. Over the last few years, several vessels have tried to deliver Libyan oil to Albania.

In September 2022, the Albanian Coast Guard reportedly seized a tanker named Queen Majeda with about 2,275 tons of oil. It was supplied in Benghazi in, Libya, an area not under the control of the internationally recognized Libyan government.

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