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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

Since last summer, we've been reporting on the “refining loophole” in countries that have banned Russian oil. Now, there is political momentum in the US to fix this problem with sanctions and close one stream of revenue still flowing to the Kremlin