US agencies have imposed sanctions against eight Indian nationals and 10 companies for links with Iranian oil trade. As part of the latest round of global sanctions, the US state department’s actions were against 40 individuals, entities and vessels, while the US treasury acted against 60 entities. On the US treasury’s office of foreign assets control list are Niti Unmesh Bhat, Kamala K Kasat, Kunal Kasat and Poonam Kasat (all based in Mumbai), Tamil Nadu-born Iyappan Raja, Varun Pula from Tirupati apart from Piyush Maganlal Jiviya and Soniya Shrestha. Among the 10 entities named were Pula’s Bertha Shipping, which is accused of using its Comoros-owned vessel to transport nearly four million barrels of Iranian LPG to China. India-based firm shipped Iranian-origin LPG to Pak: US Similarly, Raja’s Marshall Islands-based Evie Lines, which owns a Panama-flagged vessel, shipped one million barrels of LPG to China. Shrestha, who owns India-based Vega Star Ship, used Comoros-flagged NEPTA to move Iranian origin LPG to Pakistan.In a statement, the US state department said between Jan 2024 and Jan 2025, India-based petrochemicals company CJ Shah & Co imported Iranian-origin petrochemical products worth $44 million from multiple companies. Javiya-owned Chemovick is also accused of importing Iranian-origin petrochem of $7 million.BK Sales Corp allegedly imported petrochemical products worth $235 million, while Mody Chem is said to have imported $49 worth of Iranian Petrochem between Jan 2024 and Feb 2025.Similarly, Paarichem Resources imported $2 million worth of Iranian-origin petrochemical products from multiple companies, including US-designated Shivnani Organics FZE, between May and Nov 2024, which included products such as toluene, US state department said.Niti Bhatt-owned Indisol dealt in shipments of $74 million between Jan-Dec 2024, while Haresh Petrochem, owned by Kasats, was found to have imported Iranian-origin goods of $10 million over 13 months, starting Jan ’24.
