A Russian tanker violated international trade sanctions by transferring fuel to a North Korean vessel at sea at least four times between October ...
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia: A Russian tanker violated international trade sanctions by transferring fuel to a North Korean vessel at sea at least four times between October 2017 and May 2018, two crew members who witnessed the transfers said.
It then met up in international waters with a North Korean vessel to which it transferred its cargo of fuel, the two crew members who witnessed the transfers said. Russia's Far Eastern Customs Administration said it could not provide information about the Tantal's voyages. The Seaport Administration of Russia's Primorye region, which includes Vladivostok, said it had sought information from the Federal Marine and River Transport Agency in response to Reuters' questions but the agency provided no information.
The Chon Myong-1 was in March 2018 included on a UN list of vessels that have conducted so-called ship-to-ship transfers of fuel in violation of sanctions.The Tantal concealed its fuel transfers to North Korea by declaring when it returned to port that it had transferred the fuel at sea to a Chinese vessel, the two crew members said.
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