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Singaporean man gets jail time over North Korean oil smuggling plot: Report

Kwek Kee Seng sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $63K for facilitating gas oil shipments to the DPRK

A Singaporean national has reportedly been sentenced to over two years in jail for his role in a scheme to supply North Korea with almost $7 million worth of oil in breach of U.N. sanctions.

Kwek Kee Seng, 66, was handed 30 months’ imprisonment and fined 80,000 Singapore dollars (approximately US$63,000) on Tuesday after pleading guilty to multiple offences linked to the scheme, including violating U.N. sanctions, receiving criminal benefits and obstruction of justice, the Singaporean newspaper The Straits Times reported Tuesday.

Prosecutors reportedly argued that Kwek played a central role in a network that indirectly delivered more than 12,000