US claim: We sold one million barrels of Iranian gasoline
A Justice Department spokesman claims to have sold 1.2 million barrels of Iranian gasoline confiscated last year and to transfer tens of millions of dollars to the American Victims of Terrorism Foundation.
According to Reuters, US Justice Department officials claimed that they had sold more than one million barrels of Iranian gasoline, which they had seized and confiscated last year under the pretext of violating sanctions, and transferred the money to the American Victims of Terrorism Foundation. They deposit.
Last year, the Trump administration claimed that 1.2 million barrels of Iranian gasoline had been shipped to Venezuela in four tankers. At that time, gasoline shipments were transferred to other ships and shipped to the United States. The United States claimed that these ships were under sanctions. Has violated US sanctions against Iran.
“The plan to sell these shipments has been completed and we are finalizing the costs,” said Mark Raymondi, a spokesman for the US Department of Justice.
He did not know the true value of the shipments, but said they could be worth tens of millions of dollars.
Raymondi stressed that the US Department of Justice still needs a court order to seize the profits from the sale and transfer it to the American Victims of Terrorism Foundation.
Last week, the United States seized the Greek tanker Achilles with the flag of Liberia (a small country in West Africa). U.S. officials have claimed that the ship was carrying Iranian crude oil instead of Iraqi oil, and that some people intended to circumvent Iranian oil sanctions by falsifying documents about its shipment. The Gulf port of America enters.
At the same time, Reuters reported: Four Emirati and Omani companies are in possession of gasoline shipments that the United States says belong to Iran and have filed a lawsuit against the seizure of the shipments in the District Court of Colombia in the United States.
The UAE-based Mobin International said it owned the petrol cargo of the Bella and Bering tankers. The UK-registered Oman Fuel also claimed to own the petrol cargo of the Pandi and Luna tankers, and the Omani company Sahar Fuel said it owned part of the Luna tanker.
The companies had said they had the right to control and own the seized gasoline shipments and wanted their seizure lifted.