Tan Wee Beng pleaded guilty to seven counts of falsifying invoices.- ST
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A businessman on the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) most-wanted list for allegedly laundering millions of dollars for North Korea was fined S$210,000 in a Singapore district court on Wednesday (Oct 20) over offences linked to that country.
Tan Wee Beng, now 44, who is the Singaporean managing director and shareholder of commodity trading firm Wee Tiong here, pleaded guilty to seven counts of falsifying invoices to hide his business dealings with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) or North Korea from two Singapore banks.
