Now, Navarro calls India an ‘oil money laundromat’

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro made fresh criticism of India over Russian oil purchases, calling the country an “oil money laundromat for the Kremlin” and accusing New Delhi of using American dollars to bankroll Moscow's war whilst “Ukrainians die.”

- Shashank Mattoo

In a detailed Twitter thread posted Thursday, Navarro outlined what he called the “India-Russia oil mathematics,” claiming “Indian refiners, with their silent Russian partners, refine and flip the black-market oil for big profits on the international market - while Russia pockets hard currency to fund its war on Ukraine.”

“India’s Big Oil lobby has turned the largest democracy in the world into a massive refining hub and oil money laundromat for the Kremlin,” Navarro wrote, noting that Russian oil imports surged from less than 1% before the Ukraine invasion to over 30%