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A Russian flagged vessel was granted clearance by a UN inspection body to call at a Houthi-controlled port after surreptitiously exporting grain from a western sanctioned terminal in occupied Crimea, an investigation by Bellingcat and Lloyd’s List has found.

The bulk carrier, Zafar (IMO: 9720263), switched off its Automated Identification System (AIS) – that allows it to be tracked by shipping services and which commercial vessels are mandated to keep on unless in danger – when it visited the Port of Sevastopol in May this year.

Daniel Martin, a partner at the Holman Fenwick Willan law firm who specialises in international trade sanctions told Lloyd’s List: “[if] you look at this from the perspective of the global policy objectives of getting food into Yemen and preventing the entry of arms then UNVIM is fulfilling its mandate.”

Material on the UNVIM website outlines that it has received “voluntary contributions and active support” from the likes of the EU, US Department of State, USAID and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Netherlands since it was set up in 2015.

Zafar arrived in Saleef just a couple of days before a visit of a Houthi delegation to Moscow in early July where issues including Yemen’s Civil War were discussed.

In December last year, Zafar was observed by Bellingcat and Lloyd’s List delivering grain loaded at the Port of Sevastopol to Bandar-e Emam Khomeini in southern Iran, thus making it a vessel of interest.

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