The movement of several vessels, including those under US sanctions, was recorded in the Strait of Hormuz. NBC News reported this on April 25, citing data from the real-time ship tracking portal MarineTraffic.
According to the analysis, at least two sanctioned vessels passed through the strait on Saturday night. One of them, the Ocean Jet tanker, was included in the US sanctions list due to suspicions of helping to finance the secret supply of Iranian drones. Another vessel, the Curacao-flagged oil tanker Lumina Ocean, has also been under sanctions since December last year and is considered part of Iran's so-called shadow fleet.
Other vessels spotted in the waters included the yacht Nord, which left the port of Dubai and crossed the strait on a route south of Larak Island.
This 142-meter superyacht, according to Meduza, belongs to a citizen of the aggressor country of the Russian Federation, Alexei Mordashov, the owner of the Russian vertically integrated steel and mining company Severstal. His fortune is estimated at approximately $37 billion; he tops the ranking of the richest entrepreneurs in the Russian Federation.
The Nord yacht was built in Germany at the Lürssen shipyard and handed over to Mordashov in 2021. After the introduction of sanctions against the Russian in 2022, the ship changed its registration to Russian. In 2023, the yacht returned to Vladivostok after a long absence.
