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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.
Saturday, 12 Dec 2020 10:21 AM MYT
The coastal city of Nampo, North Korea, in November 2016. iStock pic
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SINGAPORE, Dec 12 For almost five years, the Singapore-based affiliate of a China-based trading firm arranged for more than S$700,000 (RM2.12 million) worth of wines and spirits to be shipped to North Korea.
Sinsms and its director, Lim Cheng Hwee, violated United Nations (UN) regulations in doing so.
It has been illegal to directly or indirectly supply luxury items to the reclusive city-state since 2006.
Yesterday, Lim, Sinsms and the firm’s administrative clerk, Hong Leng Ooi, pleaded guilty to several charges under the United Nations (Sanctions Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) Regulations 2010.
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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.