From ABC News:
The crude oil tanker, named the “The Skipper,” according to four people familiar with the operation, was sanctioned by the U.S. in 2022.
Digital broadcast signals emitted from the vessel’s transponder and tracked by analytics company Kpler placed the Skipper near Guyana’s offshore between November and December. However, more than a dozen satellite images verified by ABC News confirmed Skipper was in fact operating in waters off the coast of Barcelona, Venezuela, around 550 miles away during this same period.
Dimitris Ampatzidis, a senior risk and compliance manager at Kpler, said there was a “pattern of deliberate obfuscation,” and that “spoofed signals” appeared to indicate “a broader pattern of sanctions evasion logistics.”
Read more at ABC News
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