OFAC Adds to SDN List
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control added the following names to its Specially Designated Nationals list for various violations of sanctions against Iran.
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One individual, a Greek national, was added to the SDN List under Iranian Transaction Regulations and the Iran Sanctions Act:
- Dmitris Cambis, aka Dimitrios Alexandros Kampis, aka Gustav Klimt. According to a State Department statement (here), Cambis is president of Impire Shipping, which helped the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) obtain eight tankers in late 2012. The vessels are purchased and controlled by Cambis and Impire, but operate on behalf of NITC. U.S. law prohibits knowingly owning or controlling vessels operating in a way that hides Iranian origin of crude oil.
Two other companies were also added to the list -- Kish P&I and Central Insurance of Iran -- for their affiliation with NITC. Kish P&I provides insurance for NITC, and is in turn reinsured by Central Intelligence of Iran, the statement said. Persons knowingly providing insurance or reinsurance for NITC can be sanctioned under U.S law. The complete list of entities added to the SDN list follows. All have been added under Iranian Transaction Regulations unless otherwise noted.
- Asia Energy General Trading LLC, United Arab Emirates
- Blue Tanker Shipping SA, Athens, Greece
- Central Insurance of Iran, aka Bimeh Markazi, aka Bimeh Markazi Iran, aka Central Insurance of Iriran, aka Central Insurance of the Islamic Republic of Iran; Tehran, Iran. Added under Executive Order 13628, which authorizes Iranian sanctions
- Garbin Navigation Ltd.; Athens, Greece
- Grace Bay Shipping Inc.; Athens, Greece
- Hercules International Ship; Athens, Greece
- Hermis Shipping SA; Athens, Greece
- Impire Shipping Company, aka Impire Shipping, aka Impire Shipping Limited; Greece, under Iranian Transaction Regulations and the Iran Sanctions Act:
- Jupiter Seaways Shipping; Athens, Greece
- Kish Protection & Indemnity, aka Kisk Mutual Protection & Indemnity, aka Kish P&I; Tehran, Iran, under Executive Order 13628
- Koning Marine Corp.; Athens, Greece
- Libra Shipping SA, aka Libra Shipping; Glyfada, Greece
- Monsoon Shipping Ltd.; Athens, Greece
- Polinex General Trading Llc; Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Sima General Trading Co. FZE, aka Sima General Trading & Industrials for Building Material Co. FZE; Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Synergy General trading FZE; United Arab Emirates
The following vessels have been added under the Iranian Transaction Regulations:
- Glaros Crude Oil Tanker, Liberia flag
- Leycothea Crude Oil Tanker, Panama flag
- Nereyda Crude Oil Tanker, Panama flag
- Ocean Nymph Crude Oil Tanker, Panama flag
- Ocean Performer Crude Oil Tanker, Liberia flag
- Seagull Crude Oil Tanker, Liberia flag
- Ulysses 1 Crude Oil Tanker, Liberia flag
- Zap Crude Oil Tanker, Liberia flag