BAI Pte Ltd Funnels Jet Fuel to Myanmar's Military
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- Myanmar military airstrikes killed 8 civilians and injured more than 20 in Sagaing Region's Talaing village on June 30, part of an escalating aerial campaign in resistance strongholds held by the National Unity Government's People Defense Forces.
- BAI Pte Ltd, a Singapore-registered firm set up in 2023 by Thomas Pek Ee Perh, supplies Jet A-1 fuel to Myanmar military-linked companies including U.S.-sanctioned Shwe Byain Phyu Co Ltd and Vital Energy Ltd, with an internal onboarding document titled "Iran-Myanmar TCR 1554" linking it to both sanctioned regimes.
- MT Great Lake, a Panama-flagged vessel, supplied roughly 90,000 metric tons of petroleum products to Myanmar-based firms since January 2025 while spoofing its AIS signal—including a "physically impossible" position fix in the Skagerrak between Denmark and Sweden—to disguise its Malaysia-to-Myanmar route.
- Maruti Energy DMCC, a Dubai-based firm targeted by the U.S. Treasury in 2025 for operating in Iran's shadow fleet, delivered diesel and five Iranian urea shipments on the vessel MV Rasha to Myat Myittar Mon Co Ltd, one of Myanmar's largest fuel importers.
- Phoenix Ship Management FZE (UAE) transported Iranian condensate and naphtha to Myanmar on vessels Nebula Drift, Aether Sail, Tidal Rhythm, and Voyager Haven, while at least four other vessels supplied diesel and gasoline to Myat Myittar Mon and Heyday Energy Trading Co Ltd.
- Funds for the jet fuel trade are routed through Thai intermediaries—Chern Charoen Co Ltd, Multitrade Co Ltd, Khun AR Trading, and Dynasty Power Co Ltd—on behalf of Myanmar National Airlines, whose parent 24hr Group chairman U Aung Aung Zaw maintains close ties to the junta.
- Myanmar's military has lost ground to ethnic armed organizations since 2023, making air power—and the jet fuel supply chain described above—its primary remaining weapon against resistance-held territory, with the source noting that each sanctions loophole "feeds back into deadly airstrikes."
Why it matters: The Myanmar military's ability to source roughly 90,000 metric tons of petroleum products since January 2025 through MT Great Lake alone—supplemented by Iran-linked intermediaries in Singapore, the UAE, and Thailand—directly enables the airstrikes killing civilians, with 8 confirmed dead on June 30 alone. As the source explicitly states, each sanctions loophole feeds back into deadly bombing, meaning Western enforcement gaps are functioning as a literal kill chain, not a deterrent.
