Tanjore Sunilkumar Srinivas
Indian national OFAC-designated 15 April 2026 for facilitating Iranian oil exports through Shamkhani network.
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Why was an Indian national sanctioned for Iranian oil three days before the IRGC attacked Indian tankers?
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Designated by OFAC under IRAN-EO13902 and SDGT for facilitating Shamkhani oil smuggling
Iran Conflict 2026: OFAC named India three days before IRGC fire- Who is Tanjore Sunilkumar Srinivas and what did OFAC designate him for?
- Srinivas is an Indian national designated by OFAC on 15 April 2026 for facilitating Iranian oil smuggling through the Shamkhani sanctions-evasion network.Source: US Treasury OFAC
- What Indian companies were sanctioned for trading Iranian oil in 2026?
- OFAC designated Fleet Tanqo Private Limited of Navi Mumbai, House of Shipping Private Limited of Chennai, and House of Shipping Investment FZCO (Dubai), alongside two Indian nationals, on 15 April 2026.Source: US Treasury OFAC
- How did Indian nationals help Iran evade oil sanctions?
- Indian nationals operated as intermediaries within shell-company networks that obscured vessel ownership and cargo origins, routing Iranian crude to buyers including Indian state refiners.Source: US Treasury OFAC
Background
Tanjore Sunilkumar Srinivas is an Indian national designated by the US Treasury's OFAC on 15 April 2026 alongside Chetan Prakash Balhotra for facilitating Iranian crude exports in breach of US sanctions. Both were named in a single OFAC action, titled "Economic Fury Targets Illicit Oil Smuggling Network Run by Iranian Regime Elite", which also designated three Indian shipping entities and added nine tankers to the SDN list.
Srinivas operated as part of the Shamkhani network, a sanctions-evasion structure using Indian and UAE-based corporate fronts to move Iranian oil to buyers including Indian state refiners. The network obscured vessel ownership and cargo origins to bypass the export controls introduced after Iran's nuclear programme triggered successive Rounds of US Treasury action.
The designation came three days before the IRGC fired on Indian-flagged tankers Sanmar Herald and Jag Arnav in the Strait of Hormuz, exposing the depth of Indian commercial entanglement with Iranian energy flows at a moment when Delhi was attempting to maintain strategic neutrality in the conflict.
