USA INDICTMENT DETAILS COMPLEX WEB OF DECEPTION FUNELLING MONEY INTO NORTH KOREA’S NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAMME
May 2nd, 2020
COURT documents unsealed yesterday (May 28) containing indictments by a grand jury for the US District of Columbia district court detail an international web of financial deception laundering more than USD2.5 billion towards North Korea, including payments specifically earmarked for the country’s nuclear weapons programme. The complex case involved charges being laid against 28 North Korean and five Chinese citizens accused of manipulating more than 250 shell companies to disguise the origins and designation of the payments, which were coordinated by North ...
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