{"id":118175,"date":"2025-05-20T22:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T22:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/118175\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T22:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T22:22:09","slug":"uk-sanctions-british-accountant-over-alleged-russian-ship-deals-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/118175\/","title":{"rendered":"UK sanctions British accountant over alleged Russian ship deals | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> May 21, 2025 03:11 AM IST <\/p>\n<p>    The UK government sanctioned John Michael Ormerod, 2 Russian ship captains, 18 vessels, and 46 financial institutions, adding them to its sanctions list.     <\/p>\n<p>The UK sanctioned an English accountant for allegedly helping Russia expand the fleet of tankers it uses to covertly ship crude around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/NETHERLANDS-RUSSIA-POLITICS-CRIME-0_1747777184548_1747777192549.jpg\" alt=\"It\u2019s part of a broader effort by the UK and European Union to clamp down on Russia\u2019s use of a so-called shadow fleet to evade sanctions against its oil sector. (File) (Pic used for representation)(AFP)\" title=\"It\u2019s part of a broader effort by the UK and European Union to clamp down on Russia\u2019s use of a so-called shadow fleet to evade sanctions against its oil sector. (File) (Pic used for representation)(AFP)\"\/>   It\u2019s part of a broader effort by the UK and European Union to clamp down on Russia\u2019s use of a so-called shadow fleet to evade sanctions against its oil sector. (File) (Pic used for representation)(AFP)    <\/p>\n<p>The British government added John Michael Ormerod, a UK national, two Russian ship captains, 18 vessels and 46 financial institutions to its sanctions list, according to a notice Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s part of a broader effort by the UK and European Union to clamp down on Russia\u2019s use of a so-called shadow fleet to evade sanctions against its oil sector.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The UK is also working lower the $60 per barrel price cap on Russian crude exports, according to the notice.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\" class=\"breadcrumbclick\" data-vars-event-label=\"Home_clicked\" data-vars-event-action=\"\/\" data-vars-event-cta=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\" class=\"breadcrumbclick\" data-vars-event-label=\"World News_clicked\" data-vars-event-action=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\" data-vars-event-cta=\"World News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World News<\/a> \/ UK sanctions British accountant over alleged Russian ship deals   <\/p>\n<p> See Less <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 21, 2025 03:11 AM IST The UK government sanctioned John Michael Ormerod, 2 Russian ship captains, 18&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[52866,52864,332,52865,52867,52863],"class_list":{"0":"post-118175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-crude-oil-exports","9":"tag-english-accountant","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-russia-tankers","12":"tag-shadow-fleet","13":"tag-uk-sanctions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114542499915992763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}