Paddy Power, the betting shop giant that sponsored U.S. basketball star Dennis Rodman’s controversial trip to North Korea, provided a selection of gifts to Kim Jong Un which may have contravened UN sanctions, it has emerged.

The betting company confirmed that it sent the gifts after accusations surfaced that Rodman gave thousands of dollars in presents to Kim Jong Un during a trip to North Korea in December.

But spokesman Paddy Power, who shares the same name as the company, insisted that sanctions had not been broken when his company sent gifts to