Nearly 70% of Iran oil tankers faked travel routes: Nikkei analysis

TORU TSUNASHIMA, MASASHI IJICHI, KENTO AWASHIMA and RYO NAMIKI

TOKYO — Nearly 70% of Iranian oil tankers have made attempts to fake their travel routes, an analysis by Nikkei shows, with many of them likely transporting crude to China to bring in precious foreign currency to the sanctioned Middle Eastern country .