Paul Carsten
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Hacking group PRANA Network leaked the Sahara Thunder emails in February of last year because it wanted to lift the lid on Iran’s circumvention of Western sanctions, two of the hackers told Reuters reut.rs/3W7SqGl
How Iran moves sanctioned oil around the world
Inside the secret operations of Iranian company Sahara Thunder, revealed and visually reconstructed from more than 10,000 leaked emails.
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January 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Hacking group PRANA Network leaked the Sahara Thunder emails in February of last year because it wanted to lift the lid on Iran’s circumvention of Western sanctions, two of the hackers told Reuters reut.rs/3W7SqGl
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In the period covered by the emails, Sahara Thunder shipped around the world almost 20 million barrels of oil, valued at some $1.7 billion based on the average market price in 2023 6/7
January 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
In the period covered by the emails, Sahara Thunder shipped around the world almost 20 million barrels of oil, valued at some $1.7 billion based on the average market price in 2023 6/7
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From March 2022 to February 2024, Sahara Thunder helped deliver 18 different sanctioned oil cargoes with a fleet of 34 ships, according to a Reuters analysis of the leaked emails 5/7
January 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
From March 2022 to February 2024, Sahara Thunder helped deliver 18 different sanctioned oil cargoes with a fleet of 34 ships, according to a Reuters analysis of the leaked emails 5/7
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Reuters pieced together the fleet of vessels run by Sahara Thunder and its business partners, and mapped out how much oil was transferred between each of the ships in the network 4/7
January 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Reuters pieced together the fleet of vessels run by Sahara Thunder and its business partners, and mapped out how much oil was transferred between each of the ships in the network 4/7
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Extracts from emails showed how Sahara Thunder and its partners shifted oil from vessel to vessel, forged documents, painted ships with new identities, faked tracking signals, and took painstaking measures to avoid any trace of Iran 3/7
January 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Extracts from emails showed how Sahara Thunder and its partners shifted oil from vessel to vessel, forged documents, painted ships with new identities, faked tracking signals, and took painstaking measures to avoid any trace of Iran 3/7
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📍Reuters mapped the key locations where tankers used by Iranian company Sahara Thunder transferred oil, from Iran and the United Arab Emirates, to Venezuela, northern Russia and a string of ports in China 2/7
January 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
📍Reuters mapped the key locations where tankers used by Iranian company Sahara Thunder transferred oil, from Iran and the United Arab Emirates, to Venezuela, northern Russia and a string of ports in China 2/7