(Bloomberg) -- The US has filed a civil forfeiture complaint for $47 million in proceeds from the sale last year of around 1 million barrels of oil allegedly from Iran, which was stored in Croatia.
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The complaint alleges a scheme between 2022 and 2024 to facilitate the shipment, storage, and sale of Iranian petroleum for the benefit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Qods Force, according to a statement from the US Attorney’s Office. Both are designated terrorist groups.
The facilitators masked the oil as Malaysian origin, and manipulated a tanker’s automatic identification system to conceal that the oil was loaded in Iran, said the statement. The products were stored at Jadranski naftovod storage facility in Omišalj, Croatia, according to the court complaint.
The Trump administration has vowed “maximum pressure” against Iran to curb its crude imports, which the White House says generates revenue that supports Tehran-backed militia groups. Washington recently sanctioned a storage terminal in China after it was found to have taken Iranian oil.
The civil forfeiture complaint was filed on Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.
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