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THURSDAY 8 AUGUST 2019 • ISSUE 20
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Suspected fuel
smuggler claims US
requested info on
Prime Minister over
Russian refuelling
MATTHEW VELLA
A Turkish shipping giant whose
companies are mostly tax-resident
in Malta has been accused of having
violated US sanctions on Iran, with
two vessels which were at one point
Malta-flagged.
According to the Turkish maritime
news agency Deniz Haber, docu-
ments it published show evidence
of violations of U.S. sanctions by
two vessels believed to belong to the
Turkish-owned Palmali Shipping.
e U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign
Assets Control (OFAC) launched an
investigation into Palmali Shipping
for violating the U.S. embargo against
Iran and Syria back in May.
Iran sanctions accusations dog
Malta-based Turkish shipper
YANNICK PACE
THE suspected fuel smuggler Darren Debono,
currently facing charges in an Italian court in
Catania, has claimed in court that officials
from the United States embassy asked him
for information about Prime Minister Joseph
Muscat and his chief of staff Keith Schembri,
in exchange for lifting US sanctions on him.
The Agdash left Bandar Abbas on
Iran's Gulf coast in March before
heading to the port of Fujairah in the
United Arab Emirates
