US seizes Singaporean oil tanker for violating North Korea sanctions

[The_King]

The U.S. has seized a Singapore-owned oil tanker that engaged in illicit ship-to-ship deliveries of petroleum products to North Korean vessels — a violation of U.S. and U.N. sanctions.

According to a statement released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday, a New York federal court issued a judgment of forfeiture and authorized U.S. ownership of the oil tanker M/T Courageous, which Cambodian authorities seized in March 2020 and have held there under a U.S. warrant since the following month.

“Criminal charges of conspiracy to evade economic sanctions on the DPRK and money laundering conspiracy are pending against the alleged owner and operator of the Courageous, Kwek Kee Seng, a Singaporean national who remains at large,” the DOJ statement said.

The statement said that Kwek Kee Seng and his co-conspirators laundered money and ran a scheme providing “a critical resource for the North Korean government and for DPRK-based companies” that ultimately aided North Korea’s nuclear program.

Citing court documents, the statement also said the tanker “illicitly stopped transmitting information regarding its location” during a four-month period between Aug. and Dec. 2019.

During that time, “satellite imagery shows that M/T Courageous both engaged in a ship-to-ship transfer of more than $1.5 million worth of oil to a North Korean ship, the Saebyol, which had been designated by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and traveled to the North Korean port of Nampo,” according to the DOJ.

The U.S. has yet to decide the fate of the M/T Courageous, which has a capacity of 2,734 tons, but U.S. authorities have signaled that they will continue to enforce all sanctions against North Korea and pursue those who violate sanctions.

U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Assistant Director William F. Sweeney Jr. said in a press release in April that the seizure of the M/T Courageous “should serve as another signal” that “the FBI will not allow adversaries to evade sanctions designed to protect our nation.”

In May 2019, the U.S. announced the seizure of the North Korean cargo ship Wise Honest for sanctions violations. The ship was reportedly sold in Sept. 2019 after the parents of Otto Warmbier and others filed a claim for the ship.

 

 

https://www.nknews.org/2021/08/us-seizes-singaporean-oil-tanker-for-violating-north-korea-sanctions/

[socrates469bc]

1 hour ago, The_King said:

The U.S. has seized a Singapore-owned oil tanker that engaged in illicit ship-to-ship deliveries of petroleum products to North Korean vessels — a violation of U.S. and U.N. sanctions.

According to a statement released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday, a New York federal court issued a judgment of forfeiture and authorized U.S. ownership of the oil tanker M/T Courageous, which Cambodian authorities seized in March 2020 and have held there under a U.S. warrant since the following month.

“Criminal charges of conspiracy to evade economic sanctions on the DPRK and money laundering conspiracy are pending against the alleged owner and operator of the Courageous, Kwek Kee Seng, a Singaporean national who remains at large,” the DOJ statement said.

The statement said that Kwek Kee Seng and his co-conspirators laundered money and ran a scheme providing “a critical resource for the North Korean government and for DPRK-based companies” that ultimately aided North Korea’s nuclear program.

Citing court documents, the statement also said the tanker “illicitly stopped transmitting information regarding its location” during a four-month period between Aug. and Dec. 2019.

During that time, “satellite imagery shows that M/T Courageous both engaged in a ship-to-ship transfer of more than $1.5 million worth of oil to a North Korean ship, the Saebyol, which had been designated by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and traveled to the North Korean port of Nampo,” according to the DOJ.

The U.S. has yet to decide the fate of the M/T Courageous, which has a capacity of 2,734 tons, but U.S. authorities have signaled that they will continue to enforce all sanctions against North Korea and pursue those who violate sanctions.

U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Assistant Director William F. Sweeney Jr. said in a press release in April that the seizure of the M/T Courageous “should serve as another signal” that “the FBI will not allow adversaries to evade sanctions designed to protect our nation.”

In May 2019, the U.S. announced the seizure of the North Korean cargo ship Wise Honest for sanctions violations. The ship was reportedly sold in Sept. 2019 after the parents of Otto Warmbier and others filed a claim for the ship.

 

 

https://www.nknews.org/2021/08/us-seizes-singaporean-oil-tanker-for-violating-north-korea-sanctions/

 

jin kumgong to leave money trail.

 

if Towkay me do the trade, Bee Kok cannot even smell my fart.

[The_King]

8 minutes ago, socrates469bc said:

 

jin kumgong to leave money trail.

 

if Towkay me do the trade, Bee Kok cannot even smell my fart.

just a oil tanker lose only mah

 

hahhaha

[Satki]

Lol

 

Wise honest

 

 

Maybe not