Three companies claiming to own more than 1.1 million barrels of Iranian fuel offloaded by US authorities from four fuel tankers bound for Venezuela last month have challenged the seizure in US federal court, Reuters reported Wednesday.
Last month the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced US authorities had taken possession of a multimillion-dollar shipment of gasoline aboard four tankers — the Lina, the Pandi, the Bella and the Bering — after the ships’ owner, Giorgios Gialozoglou, agreed to surrender the cargo.