Conflict over the MV Savina Caylyn
MV Savina Caylyn ransom payment has reportedly fuelled a serious rift between factions in the pirate gang responsible.
According to the hijackers, an $11.5 million ransom was paid via two bag drops to release the vessel, which had a crew made up of 17 Indians and five Italians, says Somalia Report.
The atypical two-part ransom drop was a response to the pirates' previous refusals to release Indian hostages, even after being paid a ransom. The trend began on April 15, when pirates holding MT Asphalt Venture declined to release the eight Indian members of the crew, hoping to use them as pawns in a prisoner exchange for pirates captured by the Indian navy. Since then, pirates have repeatedly refused to release Indian nationals, and have even gone so far as to declare their intention to "hunt" Indian seafarers.
The size of the ransom, one of the largest to date, was reportedly a decisive factor behind the pirate gang's backtrack on its threat to continue to hold the 17 Indian hostages (out of 25 crew) on-board, regardless of whether a ransom was paid.
A number of pirates from this group had initially threatened to refuse to release 17 Indian hostages, but the group's leader, Ilyaas (a well-known pirate commander from Murarsade, a sub clan of Hawiye), alongside two other senior members of the gang, decided to release them.
Source: Somalia Report
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