Iran’s Secretive Oil Trader To Liquidate UK Operations After Govt Crackdown

Ocean Leonid Investments Ltd, a hedge fund linked to secretive Iranian oil trader Hossein Shamkhani, has informed its London employees that it will go into liquidation, Bloomberg has reported. The development comes just months after the UK government cracked down on the oil-trading kingpin’s empire, known for moving Iranian and Russian crude around the world. Previously, Bloomberg reported that Companies House, the UK corporate register, issued notice that London-based Nest Wise Trading Ltd. is to be dissolved within months due...