In 2023, the vessel regularly resorted to the practice of conducting so-called “dark” activity in the transshipment area in the Kerch Strait, which has been actively used by russia since 2023 to carry out STS transshipment with other vessels, in particular, to “legalize” stolen Ukrainian grain, redirecting it to third countries under the guise of grain of russian origin.
The vessel is involved in schemes of stealing Ukrainian grain from the TOT of Crimea (Ukraine). In particular, the vessel used the STS method to load grain in the Kerch Strait from the russian vessel 'M. ANDREEV' (IMO 8946377), which had exported stolen Ukrainian grain from the closed port of Sevastopol (TOT Crimea, Ukraine).