US Seizes Websites in Connection With Iranian Oil Shipments to Venezuela

The Department of Justice seized three websites used by three front companies that allegedly tried to illegally ship Iranian oil to Venezuela, DOJ said in an Aug. 28 news release. The websites belong to Mobin International, Sohar Fuel and Oman Fuel, which arranged for a multibillion-dollar fuel shipment by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, DOJ alleged. The U.S. seized the shipment, including the oil aboard four tankers, last month (see 2008140021).