US tells India its ship rerouted Russia-linked fuel to New York
Indian ship earlier this year picked up oil in mid-seas from Russian tanker, got it refined in western Gujarat state and then took the output to New York, says a top Indian central banker, adding “that’s the way war works.”
(Reuters/AP)
The United States has
expressed concern to India that its ship was used earlier this year to
export fuel made from Russian crude to New York through
high-seas transfers, a top Indian central banker said.
US sanctions on Russia for its February attack on Ukraine prohibit imports to the United States of Russian-origin
energy products including crude oil, refined fuels, distillates,
coal and gas.
“You know that there are sanctions against people who are
buying Russian oil, and this was reported to us by the US
Treasury,” Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Michael Patra
told an audience of government officials and figures in finance
and banking.
“It turns out, an Indian ship met a Russian tanker in
mid-seas, picked up oil in the mid-seas, came to a port in
Gujarat, it was processed in that port and converted into a
distillate which actually goes into making single-use plastic,”
Patra said at the event in Odisha state, held to celebrate 75
years of India’s independence.
“The refined output was put back on that ship and it set
sail without a destination. In the mid-seas it received the
destination so it reached its course, went to New York. So
that’s the way war works. It works in strange ways.”
Trades still going strong
Patra did not name the ship or give any other details.
The US embassy in New Delhi had no comment.
India, the world’s third-biggest oil importer and consumer,
has become one of the biggest importers of Russian oil since the assault on Ukraine, having bought very little of it previously.
Russia is traditionally India’s biggest supplier of military hardware, and New Delhi has not condemned Moscow’s aggression towards Ukraine, though it has called for an end to violence.
Source: Reuters
Indian ship earlier this year picked up oil in mid-seas from Russian tanker, got it refined in western Gujarat state and then took the output to New York, says a top Indian central banker, adding “that’s the way war works.”
(Reuters/AP)
The United States has
expressed concern to India that its ship was used earlier this year to
export fuel made from Russian crude to New York through
high-seas transfers, a top Indian central banker said.
US sanctions on Russia for its February attack on Ukraine prohibit imports to the United States of Russian-origin
energy products including crude oil, refined fuels, distillates,
coal and gas.
“You know that there are sanctions against people who are
buying Russian oil, and this was reported to us by the US
Treasury,” Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Michael Patra
told an audience of government officials and figures in finance
and banking.
“It turns out, an Indian ship met a Russian tanker in
mid-seas, picked up oil in the mid-seas, came to a port in
Gujarat, it was processed in that port and converted into a
distillate which actually goes into making single-use plastic,”
Patra said at the event in Odisha state, held to celebrate 75
years of India’s independence.
“The refined output was put back on that ship and it set
sail without a destination. In the mid-seas it received the
destination so it reached its course, went to New York. So
that’s the way war works. It works in strange ways.”
Trades still going strong
Patra did not name the ship or give any other details.
The US embassy in New Delhi had no comment.
India, the world’s third-biggest oil importer and consumer,
has become one of the biggest importers of Russian oil since the assault on Ukraine, having bought very little of it previously.
Russia is traditionally India’s biggest supplier of military hardware, and New Delhi has not condemned Moscow’s aggression towards Ukraine, though it has called for an end to violence.
Source: Reuters
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