{"id":44458,"date":"2024-06-11T05:38:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T02:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/u-s-treasury-sanctions-two-captains-for-smuggling-iranian-oil\/44458\/"},"modified":"2024-06-11T05:38:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T02:38:17","slug":"u-s-treasury-sanctions-two-captains-for-smuggling-iranian-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/u-s-treasury-sanctions-two-captains-for-smuggling-iranian-oil\/44458\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Treasury Sanctions Two Captains for Smuggling Iranian Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a rare move targeting mariners, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has added two captains to its list of people who have been blacklisted for helping move Iranian-linked oil. It is a rare instance of a sanctions designation that targets licensed officers rather than shipowners or charterers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first of the two officers, Capt. Vivek Ashok Pandey, has allegedly served as the master of the sanctioned tanker <em>Olympics<\/em> (ex name <em>Lady Sophia<\/em>). According to the Treasury, the <em>Olympics<\/em> operates on behalf of the Sa&rsquo;id al-Jamal network, a Houthi-run covert shipping enterprise that smuggles oil for Iran&#039;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The agency said that the tanker is operating in the East China Sea and using forged paperwork that falsely describes her cargo as &quot;Malaysian,&quot; a common cover for Iranian oil shipments bound for China.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Treasury&#039;s Office of Foreign Assets Control also blacklisted Capt. Sandeep Singh Choudhary, master of the tanker<em> La Pearl<\/em> (also known as <em>Elite<\/em>). The vessel has just delivered a sanctioned cargo and is currently located off the coast of China, according to the agency. Treasury believes that the<em> La Pearl<\/em> is owned by sanctioned Saone Shipping Corporation; Saone allegedly supports the oil-smuggling interests of an&nbsp;Iranian government front company, Sepehr Energy Jahan Nama Pars Company (SEJ).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the same announcement, Treasury also imposed sanctions on a range of oil-trading and transport entities connected to the Sa&rsquo;id al-Jamal network. These newly-blacklisted individuals and companies include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sa&#039;id al-Jamal&#039;s nephew, Abdallah, who allegedly handles money-laundering for the network<\/li>\n<li>Shark International Shipping and its managing director, John Britto Aruldhas, for allegedly supplying the network with forged oil shipping documents on behalf of the Houthis<\/li>\n<li>Rayyan Shipping Private Ltd., manager and technical operator of the Olympics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Treasury also sanctioned Hong Kong-based Lainey Shipping Ltd., Lainey&#039;s tanker <em>Janet<\/em>, Panama-based Louis Marine Shipholding, and Louis Marine&#039;s tanker <em>Bella 1<\/em>. The firms and their vessels allegedly carried sanctioned Iranian cargoes for Concepto Screen SAL Off-Shore, a front company for the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In a rare move targeting mariners, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has added two captains to its list of people who have been blacklisted for helping move Iranian-linked oil. It is a rare instance of a sanctions designation that targets licensed officers rather than shipowners or charterers.&nbsp; The first of the two officers, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[7323,3052,20710,166,1082,4696,3244,515],"class_list":["post-44458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-captains","tag-iranian","tag-janet","tag-oil","tag-sanctions","tag-smuggling","tag-treasury","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/44459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}