A Global Witness investigation reveals that in 2023 the EU imported 130 million barrels of seaborne refined products – mostly diesel – from refineries processing Russian crude. These purchases were worth an estimated €1.1 billion to the Kremlin in direct tax revenues.
Global Witness investigation reveals that since Russia invaded Ukraine, a refinery joint-owned by Mittal Energy Investments, a Lakshmi Mittal business, bought billions of dollars’ worth of Russian oil even as his employees in Ukraine die on the frontlines