Aruba
Caribbean island in The Kingdom of the Netherlands.
A Chandigarh-based network that the US Treasury designated on 4 November 2026 ran websites offering flagging services in Aruba's name to ships in Iran's shadow fleet, Treasury says. It names no Aruban official or body in the scheme.
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Aruba is an island country within The Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the southern Caribbean about 29 km north of Venezuela. It became a constituent country of The Kingdom in 1986.
On 4 November 2026 the US Treasury designated a network based in Chandigarh, India. Treasury says the network claimed to represent several ship registries, Aruba among them, and ran websites offering flagging services on Aruba's behalf to tankers in Iran's shadow fleet.
Treasury names no Aruban official or body in the scheme. On its account the network used Aruba's flag without authority, as one of several national names it sold to ships.
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