EU lists 12 Russia circumvention and shadow-fleet actors

The European Union has frozen the assets of three Russian circumvention facilitators and nine entitiesEuropa — based in Russia and Türkiye, the United Arab Emirates, India and Seychelles — that move restricted goods, payments and shadow-fleet oil for Russia. Council Decision (CFSP) 2026/2332 and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/2333, both of 15 October 2026Europa, add the same three persons and nine entities to the Ukraine-regime listsEuropa under Decision 2014/145/CFSP and Regulation (EU) No 269/2014.

The three individuals are Dmitry Chudovsky, General Director of Movers Group LLC; Ivanna Savchuk, majority shareholder of customs broker DT Inier LLC; and Svetlana Gumenyuk, director and founder of PV Bridge LLC and United Stream LLCEuropa — each listed for significantly frustrating Regulation (EU) No 833/2014 through parallel imports, turnkey-procurement schemes and third-country shell networks.

The nine entities span the circumvention chain. Movers Group organises transport of restricted goods into Russia with related financial transactions. DT Inier, a licensed customs broker and full-cycle logistics operator, runs indirect routes via third countries with logistical and documentation support, coordinates transaction terms and payment, and owns European warehouses where routes originate. Turkish traders Begler Tekstil and Medse Group procure restricted products for Russia, Medse also routing international payments through major Russian banks. United Stream acts as payment agent inside the PV Bridge shell-company network for covert Union-to-Russia imports. HURUS TRADE FZE of Dubai intermediates Russian-origin crude to India, notably to listed Nayara Energy, and is tied to listed traders Tahir Garayev and Etibar Eyyub; it is listed as operating in a sector providing substantial revenue to the Russian Government. The three shadow-fleet operators — DIS Logistics DMCC of Dubai, Vigor Marine Services LLP of Mumbai and Shiva Shipping Ltd of SeychellesEuropa — manage or own vessels moving Russian crude or petroleum productsEuropa while sailing without AIS signal, with inadequate liability insurance, via ship-to-ship transfers, with manipulated tracking or without transparent governance, as set out in IMO Assembly resolution A.1192(33).

Both acts enter into force on publication in the Official Journal on 15 October 2026EuropaEuropa; the Implementing Regulation is directly applicable in all Member States. Legal basis: Article 29 TEU for the Decision and Article 14(1) of Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 for the Implementing Regulation, amending Decision 2014/145/CFSP and Regulation (EU) No 269/2014.