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On 11 December (Friday), a Singaporean company, SINSMS, and its managing director, Lim Cheng Hwee, pleaded guilty to violating United Nations (UN) regulations for supplying S$745,000 worth of wines and spirits to North Korea between 2013 and 2018, reports Straits Times.
Lim, 49, has since been charged with two months’ worth of jail time after pleading guilty to three counts of unlawfully supplying S$530,000 worth of alcohol to North Korea, while SINSMS has been fined S$30,000 under similar charges. Both Lim and the company have six other charges linked to the remaining money’s worth of supplied goods.
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A managing director and his Singapore-based wholesale trading company unlawfully supplied goods - mainly wines and spirits - worth more than $745,000 to North Korea between 2013 and 2018.
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A managing director and his Singapore-based wholesale trading company unlawfully supplied goods mainly wines and spirits worth more than S$745,000 to North Korea between 2013 and 2018.