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The vessel is part of the fleet of the sanctioned russian shipping company Transpetrochart LLC (ООО "Транспетроchart"), which has been implicated in providing material support to the sanctioned JSC Sovfracht (АО "Совфрахт") – one of the largest independent transport and forwarding companies in russia, serving as a key node in the military transport network of russian cargo vessels delivering North Korean weapons to military facilities, which are then moved to weapons warehouses on russia’s western border for use in the war against Ukraine.
Vessels of Transpetrochart LLC (ООО "Транспетроchart") have been implicated in supplying aviation fuel for russian troops in Syria after sanctions were imposed on JSC Sovfracht (АО "Совфрахт") in September 2016.
In September 2019, the USA imposed sanctions on the vessel IMO 8943155.