What the dramatic US seizure of Venezuela-linked oil tanker tells us

The Skipper — a 332-metre tanker previously sanctioned as the M/T Adisa — was carrying nearly 2 million barrels of Venezuelan crude, including oil for Cuba, when US forces boarded it on December 10. The tanker had falsified its AIS data, falsely used Guyana’s flag, and was part of a shadow fleet moving sanctioned crude for Venezuela, Iran, and Russia

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