Read also: Global oil market adjusting as Russia hit by sanctions, says Saudi AramcoBut according to the publication, officially, this import is not classed as coming from Russia – it came to the country through the use of loopholes in regulations that allow the origin of the oil to be obscured.Read also: Oil tankers with unknown owners being amassed to ship Russian oil, Bloomberg reportsThat’s because the UK Office for National Statistics takes into account the sending country, not the oil producer.The Times said Russian oil tankers can evade sanctions by pumping their oil onto other ships while on the high seas, often disabling their GPS transponders so that they cannot be tracked while doing so.In one incident recorded in May, the tanker Mariner III left the southern Russian port of Tuapse with a cargo of 200,000 barrels of oil.After five days at sea, the vessel anchored next to a large tanker owned by Greek company Marinoula."