U.S. military boarded a sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean Sea to target illicit oil connected to Venezuela.

President Trump says India will stop buying sanctioned Russian oil in trade deal, but data shows shadow fleet vessels on the move evading global enforcement.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy claimed to have seized two tankers in the Persian Gulf, claiming they carried over one million litres of smuggled fuel. Fifteen foreign crew members were detained as Tehran alleged the vessels were part of an organised smuggling network near Farsi Island.

The US accuses the Veronica III of violating a "quarantine" on oil shipments from Venezuela.

The ship’s seizure comes more than a week after it maneuvered through a US Navy blockade of sanctioned tankers leaving from a port in the South American country.