The Turkish shipowner tried to hide the fact of trade with the Russian Federation
18.03.2024 - 12:58
The Turkish operator of 44 large vessels has been sanctioned by Great Britain for the illegal transportation of Russian oil.
In February 2024, the large Turkish company “Beks Ship Management” and “Trading Joint Stock Company” came under British sanctions. Andriy Klymenko, head of the Monitoring Group of the Institute of Black Sea Strategic Studies writes about this.
The Turkish company is the operator of 44 large vessels, mostly tankers. “Beks Ship Management” vessels with Rosneft stopped for about a week in the Sea of Marmara and turned off AIS. In this way, the violator erased the names of ships and the history of visits to Russian ports. Back then, ships under other names, flags of other countries and with a clean history of ports appeared at the same anchorages.
In particular, the Marshall Islands-flagged “Beks Lina” tanker “transformed” into the Guinea-flagged Soul; tanker “Beks Bordum” became Vault; Beks Bebek tanker became Palm; tanker Beks Ebru became Unite.
Recently, Switzerland opened the first criminal case for circumventing sanctions against the Russian Federation.
Read also: the terminal in Turkey refused to accept Russian oil.
