The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrested a cruise ship crew member, recognized as Akshay Somaroo, for possession and importation of kid pornography close to Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, Canada in keeping with Nunatsiaq News. On the time of his arrest, Somaroo was engaged on the World Explorer, a comparatively small expedition cruise ship with a capability of round 170 friends and 130 crew members.
The native information reported that RCMP officers boarded the cruise ship in Frobisher Bay to help Canada Border Providers Company (CBSA) and Fisheries and Oceans Canada officers with what had been described as “routine” customs examinations. Whereas conducting these examinations, this crew member, who reportedly is from Mauritius, was searched by CBSA officers and was subsequently arrested after he was discovered to be in possession of kid pornography.
The arrest of this 31 year-old crew member brings the whole variety of crew members arrested for youngster pornograhy to seventeen (17) in simply the final seven months. That is the very best variety of such arrests since I started reporting in regards to the cruise trade fifteen years in the past.
Somaroo didn’t enter a plea and is scheduled to look within the Nunavut Courtroom of Justice on September eleventh, in keeping with a information launch on the RCMP website.
Mystic Cruises owns the World Explorer which is at present chartered to and operated by Quark Expeditions and Nicko Cruises.
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Picture credit score: Akshay Somaroo in custody of Canadian sheriff’s workplace – Arty Sarkisian by way of Nunatsiaq News; World Explorer – Quark Expeditions
