Shadow Fleet & Oil Sanctions: Screening Checklist

Sanctioned oil hides by going dark, changing identity and moving ship-to-ship, and the money moves through front companies, exchange houses and stablecoins. This checklist gives sanctions, trade finance and correspondent banking teams a practical way to catch it.

Inside:

• How sanctioned oil hides, in four steps
• 5 red flags across vessels, trade documents and payments
• A 7-step screening checklist: re-screen, check the vessel (IMO number, name and flag history), ownership changes, AIS gaps, documents and the payment chain
• The 2026 enforcement snapshot: U.S. shadow-fleet sanctions, the Bank of America penalty and FinCEN’s IRGC alert
• Where to report in the U.S. and Canada

Built from The Risk Café Files episode The Price of a Barrel.

1-page PDF, Letter size. By SafeSquare Consulting. General information, not legal advice.