An oil tanker implicated in several investigations into North Korean sanctions evasions has continued to fraudulently assume the identities of other vessels in a bid to dupe investigators, a forthcoming U.N. report seen by NK News shows. 

This time around, the 9,200-ton oil tanker Diamond 8 (IMO 9132612) tried to pass itself as a ship that had been in a Southeast Asian scrapyard for a year.

Investigators reportedly spotted the Diamond 8 near China’s Fujian Province in June this year, using a radio identifier linked to the Mongolia-flagged Shun Li (IMO 8514435). 

However, records from maritime intelligence platforms such as