FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano on Wednesday ordered the Philippine Embassy in Tripoli to exert all efforts to secure the release of 20 Filipino seafarers detained by Libyan authorities on suspicion that they were transporting smuggled oil.
The Filipinos were taken into custody after a Libyan Coast Guard patrol boat seized the Liberian-flagged tanker Levant off Zawia, west of Tripoli, on Sunday, for allegedly trying to smuggle more than six million liters of gasoline.
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