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The vessel has been implicated in grain theft schemes involving the Avlita grain terminal in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol (temporarily occupied territory – TOT of Crimea, Ukraine) in July and August 2022, with the stolen grain transshipped to the russian Port Kavkaz, as well as from the port of Kerch (TOT of Crimea, Ukraine).
A Ukrainian court served the vessel’s captain with a notice of suspicion. The captain made seven port calls at the closed commercial seaports of Sevastopol and Kerch (TOT of Crimea, Ukraine) to load looted Ukrainian grain, periodically disabling the Automatic Identification System (AIS) and entering false course data to indicate alleged voyages to russian ports rather than to the closed ports of TOT of Crimea, Ukraine.
The Turkish agricultural company Bek Tarim, the russian company Fast LLC (ООО "Фаст", TIN 2376000774), and Petrokhleb-Kuban LLC (ООО "Петрохлеб-Кубань", TIN 2310109650) have been involved in the vessel’s grain export activities. The vessel is managed by Kuban Marine Company LLC (ООО "Кубанская морская компания", TIN 2310213041), a russian company affiliated with Petrokhleb-Kuban LLC. Kuban Marine Company LLC operates three other vessels engaged in illegal voyages to closed ports of TOT of Crimea, Ukraine.
The vessel has also been involved in smuggling ilmenite—while AIS was disabled—for the Crimean Titan (АО "Крымский титан") plant, seized in TOT of Crimea, Ukraine, through ship-to-ship (STS) transfers in the Black Sea for delivery to the port of Kerch (TOT of Crimea, Ukraine).
The vessel has been in violation of Ukrainian legislation and the so-called "Crimean sanctions" since 2015, having made numerous port calls at Kerch (TOT of Crimea, Ukraine) since that year, including for raid transshipments in the Kerch Strait.