The United States has expressed concern to India that it was used earlier this 12 months to export gas constituted of Russian crude to New York by means of high-seas transfers, a prime Indian central banker mentioned on Saturday.

U.S. sanctions on Russia for its February invasion of Ukraine prohibit imports to the United States of Russian-origin power merchandise together with crude oil, refined fuels, distillates, coal and fuel.

“You know that there are sanctions against people who are buying Russian oil, and this was reported to us by the U.S. Treasury,” Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Michael Patra informed an viewers of presidency officers and figures in finance and banking.

“It turns out, an Indian ship met a Russian tanker in mid-seas, picked up oil in the mid-seas, came to a port in Gujarat, it was processed in that port and converted into a distillate which actually goes into making single-use plastic,” Patra mentioned on the occasion in Odisha state, held to rejoice 75 years of India’s independence.

“The refined output was put back on that ship and it set sail without a destination. In the mid-seas it received the destination so it reached its course, went to New York. So that’s the way war works. It works in strange ways.”

Patra didn’t identify the ship or give some other particulars.

The U.S. embassy in New Delhi had no remark.

India, the world’s third-biggest oil importer and client, has turn out to be one of many greatest importers of Russian oil because the invasion of Ukraine, having purchased little or no of it beforehand.

Russia is historically India’s greatest provider of army {hardware}, and New Delhi has not condemned Moscow’s aggression in direction of Ukraine, although it has known as for an finish to violence.