By Maya Lester KC & Michael O’Kane

US offered a huge financial reward to Adrian Darya 1 captain before then sanctioning him

The Financial Times has reported that after the Adrian Darya 1 (formerly the Grace 1) was recently released by the authorities in Gibraltar, Brian Hook, the US Special Representative for Iran, made a direct offer by emails to pay the captain, Akhilesh Kumar, of several million dollars if he sailed to a port that would impound the vessel on behalf …

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Michael is Senior Partner at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. He has acted in many of the most high profile and sensitive business crime cases of the last 25 years, at Peters &...

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