Singaporean companies knowingly shipped luxury goods to DPRK, UN report says

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Singaporean companies knowingly shipped luxury goods to DPRK, UN report says

New statements suggest companies and Singaporean director concealed North Korea activities

Chad O'Carroll March 13, 2019

Singaporean companies knowingly shipped luxury goods to DPRK, UN report says

NK Pro

A Singaporean company facing dozens of charges relating to luxury goods exports to North Korea continued indirectly sending goods there after claiming to have ceased DPRK trade in 2012, a UN report showed on Tuesday.

T Specialist and its partner firm OCN, two Singaporean companies first highlighted by NK Pro investigation in July 2017, previously told the UN’s Panel of Experts they had ceased exporting products to North Korea in late 2012, in order to shift business towards the China market.

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Chad O'Carroll

Chad O'Carroll is the founder of NK News/NK Pro and related holding company Korea Risk Group. In addition to being the group's CEO, O'Carroll is a frequent writer and commentator about the Koreas, having written about the two nations since 2010. He has visited the DPRK multiple times, worked and lived in Washington, D.C. with a focus on peninsula issues, and lived in the ROK since 2016.

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