At least 76 tankers from Russia’s shadow fleet were allowed to pass freely through NATO waters in the Baltic Sea thanks to a scheme involving fake insurance certificates. The documents were issued by a shell company called Ro Marine, which posed as Norwegian but was actually owned by a Russian. Journalists found out that the company had no financial transactions and only one person on its staff – an unnamed board member with Bulgarian citizenship. The company’s owner, 41-year-old Andrey Mochalin, worked for many years in the Norwegian insurance industry but now lives in St. Petersburg.