A global supplier of cigarette paper products, PT Bukit Muria Jaya (“BMJ”), has agreed to pay a fine of $1,561,570 and enter into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department for conspiring to commit bank fraud in connection with the shipment of products to North Korean customers.
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BMJ, which is incorporated in Indonesia, has also entered into a settlement agreement with the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”).
In entering the deferred prosecution agreement, BMJ admitted and accepted responsibility for its criminal conduct and agreed to pay a fine commensurate with the offense.
Just three days after an Indonesian company was fined $1 million for selling cigarette paper to North Korea, the same company was fined another $1.5 million in a double-whammy of penalties for sanctions violations. The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Sunday that PT Bukit Muria Jaya (BMJ) agreed to pay a $1.56 million fine […]
An Indonesian paper manufacturer was fined more than $1 million for violating sanctions by selling cigarette papers to North Korea in exchange for U.S. dollar wire payments. On Thursday, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that a company called PT Bukit Muria Jaya (BMJ) directed the Chinese intermediary of a […]