Two tobacco companies have agreed to pay over $600 million to US authorities over allegations that the companies were selling tobacco products to North Korea in violation of US sanctions.
The agreement was simultaneously announced with criminal charges against the two companies for North Korean sanctions violation, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Separately, the Justice Department charged a North Korean banker and two Chinese nationals with helping to facilitate tobacco sales in North Korea, according to court documents.
and the North Korean Tobacco Company — owned by the North Korean Government — created a joint enterprise in 2001 to manufacture BAT cigarettes within North Korea for domestic sale, according to the Justice Department. In 2007, prosecutors say, BAT publicly announced that they would sell all their shares in the joint enterprise, but quietly continued to maintain influence over the company and kept taking profits from sales to North Korea.
to obfuscate the payments.
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