The captains of two Houthi-linked tankers, Vivek Ashok Pandey and Sandeep Singh Choudhary, both Indian nationals are among ten individuals, vessels and entities sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in its latest moves against the network of Houthi financial facilitator Sa’id al-Jamal. All are said to have engaged in the illicit transport of oil and other commodities.
The action targets maritime shipping and financial facilitators, the two...