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North Korean receives four-week jail sentence in Singaporean luxury goods case

Li Hyon charged with four counts of conspiracy to supply illicit goods to Pyongyang department store

A North Korean national received a four-week jail sentence in a Singaporean court Tuesday, after pleading guilty to four counts of conspiracy to supply luxury goods to a Pyongyang department store in violation of UN and Singaporean sanctions.

Li Hyon, the son of unindicted co-conspirator Li Ik, completed his studies in Singapore in 2014 and served as his DPRK-based father’s business liaison in the Southeast Asian city state until 2017, when the scheme was revealed to media and Singaporean investigators.

As revealed by NK News’s sister site NK Pro in July 2017 and in subsequent investigations, Singaporean national Ng