Russian fuel shipments to an Indonesian terminal near Singapore tripled in 2025. A tanker faked its location while loading there, and the terminal kept changing hands.
Two House committee chairmen have asked Rubio and Bessent to decide within 180 days whether to sanction the network around Benjamin Mauerberger and his Cambodian partner Yim Leak. Tom Wright on the scam money moving through Southeast Asian elites:
Read on X →A Chinese scam boss murdered in Sri Lanka in July carried a Cambodian passport in one name and a Surinamese passport in another. OCCRP and The Sunday Times found his real name in Cambodia's naturalisation records:
Read on X →Seven tankers carrying about 288,000 tonnes of Russian diesel are crossing the Atlantic to the US, Greenpeace Ukraine says. Three are sanctioned. Russian fuel is also moving east. Shipments to one Indonesian terminal near Singapore tripled in 2025.
Read on X →Since a company in the Coral network bought PT Oil Terminal Karimun in 2024, its shares have changed hands four times as sanctions closed in. The latest filings point back to a familiar figure from inside Coral. Clara Preve reports:
Read on X →Russian fuel shipments to an Indonesian terminal near Singapore tripled in 2025. A tanker faked its location while loading there. Since a Coral Energy network company bought the terminal in 2024, it has changed hands four times. By @claraprevedur:
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