Europe has fixed its eyes on Hector, a silent Iranian tycoon who is being accused of having armed Russia to the teeth, supporting the Kremlin in the middle of the war with Ukraine.
As reported Bloombergthis is Hossein Shamkhani. “Through a network of companies he oversees, including Dubai-based Crios Shipping LLC, he began transporting missiles, drone components and dual-use products across the Caspian Sea on at least two ships last year“, they have assured.
“Moscow pays for shipments with oil shipments, the people said, the kind of barter trade that has become increasingly common due to US and European sanctions against Russia and Iran“, a dozen American, British and European officials have explained to the aforementioned media.
What is striking is that the transactions occurred during the shipment of Iranian weapons to Ukraine. The protagonist’s father was Iran’s longest-serving Defense Minister and remains an important advisor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Hossein Shamkhani is known as ‘Hector’ and they say he has a “close relationship” with “Oceanlink and Koban, which operate on behalf of the Armed Forces Logistics of the Iranian Ministry of Defense, according to David Tannenbaum, a former official of the “U.S. Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control.”
