The National Anti-Corruption Agency (NACC) has renewed the status of five Greek carrier companies in the list of “International Sponsors of War” on the basis of the companies’ failure to fulfill the conditions agreed during negotiations on their removal from the list, the press service of the NACC reported.
We are talking about five Greek companies, Dynacom Tankers Management (DTM); Delta Tankers LTD; Thenamaris Ships Management Inc.; Minerva Marine; TMC Tankers LTD, which have not publicly condemned Russian aggression.
“Recently, the Ukrainian and Greek sides started negotiations where they offered the companies to fulfill the following conditions: to stop the practices of switching off transponders, overloading from board to board, to publicly condemn Russian aggression. The issue of switching off transponders and transshipment from board to board was addressed in the 11th EU sanctions package. However, these five Greek carrier companies did not fulfill the requirement to publicly condemn Russian aggression within the specified timeframe. Therefore, the NAACP has renewed their status on the list of “International sponsors of war”, – reported the press service of the NAACP.
Five Greek companies were included in the list of “sponsors of war” in the summer of 2022. Based on the data of the application for monitoring of naval traffic Marine Traffic detectives calculated that Greek shipowners took out of rf one third of the volume of oil that was sent for export last spring – 19 million tons for $ 16 billion.
According to NAPC, of this volume in March-May 2022, 31 tankers of 3.4 million tons were transported by TMS Tankers Ltd, 28 tankers (2.68 million tons) by Minerva Maritime (Minerva Marine Inc.), 22 tankers (1.43 million tons) by Thenamaris Ships Management Inc, 11 tankers (1.3 million tons) by Delta Tankers Ltd, 12 tankers (1.04 million tons) by Dynacom Tankers Management Ltd.
The NAPC recalled that the list of “International Sponsors of War” on the portal “War and Sanctions” is a powerful reputational tool to achieve integrity in the supply chain in the international dimension, the exit of international business from the Russian Federation and, accordingly, to reduce the financial and technological ability of the terrorist country to kill Ukrainians. One of the platform’s “leverage” is cooperation with the World-Check database, which is used by banks and insurance companies to assess risks.
