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LALIQUE

Person of interest · Sanctioned entity
TypeVessel[sources]
NameLALIQUE[sources]
Build Date[sources]
Call Sign3E4627[sources]
DescriptionAccording to the American human rights group United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), which monitors Iranian-related tanker traffic using satellite data, the vessel was involved in the transportation of Iranian oil and switched to transporting russian oil in March 2023. Since the beginning of russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, more than 90 vessels that previously helped Tehran export Iranian export oil are now helping russia transport russian oil/oil products. In May 2022, UANI first predicted that russia would turn to the “ghost armada” to ensure oil flows to its Chinese partner. · During the period of the G7 and EU oil embargo and the price-cap policy on russian oil, the tanker is involved in the export of oil to India and other third countries from russian ports in the Baltic and Black Seas, and resorts to the practice of turning off the AIS signal, conducting so-called “dark activities” at sea. · The international NGO Greenpeace refers to the tanker as part of a shadow fleet of tankers transporting russian oil around the world through the Baltic Sea, the Kadetsky Canal area in the Bay of Mecklenburg, and threatening the environment. · The tanker was included by UANI in the list of Maduro-Khamenei Oil Alliance tankers involved in the transportation of Iranian and Venezuelan oil. On June 11, 2022, Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and former Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi signed a 20-year cooperation agreement to expand ties in the oil and petrochemical industries, military and economic spheres. Since then, bilateral ties have been developing: in 2023, Iran supplied more than 12 million barrels of crude oil and gas condensate, and Venezuela supplied about the same amount of fuel oil to Iran in return. Most of the cargo is transported by vessels of the sanctioned National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) in both directions: Iranian oil and gas are unloaded in Venezuelan ports, and the same NITC tankers load Venezuelan fuel oil on the way back to China. A significant number of non-NITC vessels flying foreign (not Iranian) flags are also involved in the trade.[sources]
FlagPanama[sources]
IMO NumberIMO9247792[sources]
MMSI352002845[sources]
Past FlagsIsle of Man · Liberia[sources]
Previous nameAfra Oak · British Oak · Damia · Gabrielle · Oaka[sources]
Tonnage106395[sources]
TypeCrude Oil Tanker · Oil Tanker[sources]
Source linkcdn.corprensa.com · kse.ua · sanctions.kse.ua · war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua · www.greenpeace.org · 2 more...[sources]
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Descriptions

Shipping sanctions: a specified ship is prohibited from being provided with access to or having its master or pilot cause it to enter a port in the UK, may have its registration on the UK Ship Register terminated, and a master or pilot of a specified ship may be given a port barring direction, a detention direction, and a port entry direction or a movement direction.

— UK FCDO Sanctions List,

Transportation of fossil fuels

— Ukraine War and Sanctions,

Transporting russian crude oil/oil products in violation of other restrictions

— Ukraine War and Sanctions,

Transportation of Iranian crude oil/petroleum products

— Ukraine War and Sanctions,

Relationships

Data sources

UK FCDO Sanctions List5,123

UK sanctions collated by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

United Kingdom · FCDO

Ukraine War and Sanctions3,537

Sponsors and accomplices of Russian armed aggression against Ukraine.

Ukraine · GUR

Source data IDs: gb-fcdo-rus2576 · ua-ws-7b67dfb80c7da0851655eabbb4cda7ed35277ce1

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