U.S. moves to take ownership of seized oil tanker Skipper and 1.8mb of Venezuelan crude, alleging Iran sanctions evasion

The U.S. Department of Justice has moved to take permanent ownership of the oil tanker Motor Tanker Skipper and roughly 1.8 million barrels of crude oil supplied by Venezuela’s state-run Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), alleging the vessel was part of a sanctions-evasion network designed to benefit Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). In a

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