South Korea said Tuesday it plans to prosecute five Somali pirates captured by South Korean commandos during a raid on a hijacked cargo ship in the Arabian sea.

Evidence gathered by an INTERPOL Incident Response Team (IRT) following the release of the hijacked oil tanker Irene SL in April 2011 is to be used by Greece in its first maritime piracy prosecution. The announcement comes during a meeting between Chief of the Hellenic Police Lieutenant General Nikolaos Papagiannopoulos and INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble at the world police body’s Gene...