Investigators Trace Myanmar Military's Sanctioned Jet Fuel Pipeline
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- Myanmar's military killed eight civilians and injured more than 20 in two airstrikes on Sagaing Region's Talaing village on June 30, part of an escalating aerial campaign as the junta loses ground to ethnic armed organizations and resistance forces.
- BAI Pte Ltd, a Singapore company owned by Thomas Pek Ee Perh that publicly presents itself as a food-industry business, supplies petroleum products to Myanmar military-linked entities including US-sanctioned Myat Myittar Mon Co Ltd and Shwe Byain Phyu Co Ltd, per shipping documents reviewed by The Diplomat.
- BAI Pte Ltd's own onboarding document is titled "Iran-Myanmar TCR 1554," which investigators say proves direct linkage with both sanctioned regimes, and the firm allegedly delivered Jet A-1 fuel to Myanmar as late as June 2026 using a Bangladeshi port-of-call to disguise the real destination.
- Vessel MT Great Lake, sailing under a Panama flag, discharged jet fuel at Yangon on June 5, 2026, after its AIS broadcast a single impossible fix in the Skagerrak between Denmark and Sweden — roughly 9,000 km from its actual position near Singapore — while publicly listing Chittagong, Bangladesh as its destination.
- Since January 2025, MT Great Lake has supplied approximately 90,000 metric tons of petroleum products to Myanmar firms linked to the military, with junta funds routed through Thai intermediaries Chern Charoen, Multitrade, Khun AR Trading, and Dynasty Power on behalf of Myanmar National Airlines (owned by 24hr Group).
- Dubai-based Maruti Energy DMCC, sanctioned by the US Treasury in 2025 for operating in Iran's shadow fleet, shipped diesel, urea, and dual-use lubricants from Iran and Russia to Myat Myittar Mon Co Ltd, while Phoenix Ship Management FZE moved Iranian condensate and naphtha via vessels including the Nebula Drift, Aether Sail, Tidal Rhythm, and Voyager Haven.
Why it matters: Eight civilians killed in one June 30 strike make the stakes concrete: the junta's air power runs entirely on this sanctions-evasion chain, and each documented loophole — a Singapore shell with an onboarding doc literally titled 'Iran-Myanmar,' US-Treasury-sanctioned Maruti still operating in 2026, Panama-flagged tankers spoofing across continents — translates directly into civilian casualties that sanctions have failed to prevent.
