Russians stole coal through Mariupol port, – Kyiv Independent

A vessel under US sanctions loaded coke in the occupied port of Mariupol. The coal was likely mined and stolen in Donetsk or Luhansk regions.

The vessel Sv. Nikolay (IMO:9482926) docked at a coal terminal in the Algerian port of Annaba on March 29, according to the Kyiv Independent investigation.

The stolen metallurgical coke the vessel was carrying is used in steel production. The coal was likely mined in Donetsk or Luhansk regions.

In particular, it became known that the vessel loaded coke in the occupied port of Mariupol in early March. There, the vessel kept its transponder turned off to disguise its route.

“The leaked documents indicate that the vessel then headed to the Russian port of Temryuk, where it spent a week, and then headed to a further point in Turkey. At the same time, the ship did not unload in the Turkish port, but spent several days at anchor. On March 29, Sv. Nikolay arrived in Algeria,” the publication emphasizes.

Kateryna Yaresko, a journalist for the SeaKrime project of the Myrotvorets Center, noted that the visit to the Russian port of Temryuk could have been necessary to hide the origin of the coke.

“The port of Temryuk reissued documents without cargo operations, that is, they issued a new cargo declaration, in which they indicated that the coke was loaded in Temryuk,” said Yaresko, who analyzed the documents that got into the network.

During the investigation, it became known that the documents contain two different cargo declarations for the same batch of coke on the same ship, loaded in the occupied port of Mariupol and in the Russian port of Temryuk a week later.

Kateryna Yaresko is sure that the second declaration is false, since the ship was already loaded when it arrived at the port of Temryuk.

It should be noted that the documents indicate the company Green Rabbit Limited as the sender of the coke. The company with this name is registered in Hong Kong not by local residents, but by a Russian citizen.