The Us Tells India That An Indian Ship Was Used To Transport Fuel Linked To Russia To New York

Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register NEW DELHI, Aug 13 (Reuters) – The United States expressed concern to India that it was used earlier this year to export fuel from Russian crude to New York via high seas transport, a top Indian central banker said on Saturday. U.S. sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine in February ban imports into the United States of energy products of Russian origin, including crude oil, refined fuels, distillates, coal and natural gas. “You know there are sanctions against people who buy Russian oil, and that’s been reported to us by the US Treasury,” Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Michael Patra told an audience of government officials and finance and banking figures. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register “It turns out that an Indian ship met a Russian tanker in the middle of the sea, picked up oil in the middle of the sea, came to a port in Gujarat, was processed in that port and turned into a distillate that actually goes into the production of single-use plastic,” Patra said at the event in Odisha state, held to mark 75 years of India’s independence. “Sophisticated production was put back on that ship and it set sail without a destination. In the middle of the sea it got the destination, so it got on its way, it went to New York. That’s the way war works. It works in strange ways.” Patra did not name the ship or provide other details. The US embassy in New Delhi had no comment. India, the world’s third-largest oil importer and consumer, has become one of the biggest importers of Russian oil since the invasion of Ukraine, having bought very little of it in the past. read more Russia has traditionally been India’s biggest supplier of military hardware, and New Delhi has not condemned Moscow’s aggression towards Ukraine, although it has called for an end to the violence. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Report by Nidhi Verma. Editing by William Mallard and Hugh Lawson Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.