US agencies have imposed sanctions against eight Indian nationals and 10 companies for links with Iranian oil trade. As part of the latest round of global sanctions, the US state department's actions were against 40 individuals, entities and vessels, while the US treasury acted against 60 entities. On the US treasury's office of foreign assets control list are Niti Unmesh Bhat, Kamala K Kasat, Kunal Kasat and Poonam Kasat (all based in Mumbai), Tamil Nadu-born Iyappan Raja, Varun Pula from Tirupati apart from Piyush Maganlal Jiviya and Soniya Shrestha. Among the 10 entities named were Pula's Bertha Shipping, which is accused of using its Comoros-owned vessel to transport nearly four million barrels of Iranian LPG to China. India-based firm shipped Iranian-origin LPG to Pak: US

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