Singapore charges two over North Korea luxury goods sanctions - paper


  • World
  • Thursday, 18 Oct 2018

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore court charged a citizen and a North Korean man with supplying prohibited luxury items to North Korea, the Straits Times newspaper said on Thursday, the latest example of sanctions breaches in the city state.

Chong Hock Yen, 58, and the North Korean Li Hyin, 30, were charged for infringing U. N. sanctions regulations that bar the supply, directly or indirectly, of any export or luxury item to any person in North Korea.

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