# Sanctioned Oil Builds Its Own Plumbing

As sanctions push oil trade into intermediaries, shell companies and digital-currency settlement, these parallel payment channels keep recurring and keep producing fraud, prosecutions and state losses, while steadily building infrastructure that operates outside dollar clearing.

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