United Arab Emirates

Unit 27610 - 001, Building A1, IFZA Business Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates / 80 Broad Street, Monrovia, Liberia

Affiliated with the sanctioned PJSC Sovcomflot, the largest state-owned shipping company in russia, a key company for servicing and supporting offshore hydrocarbon production, transportation of russian oil, oil products, and liquefied gas against the background of sanctions restrictions on russia after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. After the sanctions were imposed, Sovcomflot transferred dozens of vessels to the ownership of companies it had set up, including in foreign jurisdictions, in order to circumvent them, and started a practice of constant ‘juggling’ (transferring) of vessels to related companies. According to expert estimates, the tankers transferred by Sovcomflot to related companies are part of the so-called ‘shadow tanker fleet’ of the russian federation to continue selling russian oil, oil products and liquefied natural gas under western sanctions.