How a Chinese entrepreneur evaded sanctions and financed Kim Jong Un's nuclear weapons program
Wednesday , August 23, 2017 - 9:26 AM
Peter Whoriskey
(c) 2017, The Washington Post.
Among the flurry of U.S. legal maneuverings on Tuesday involving North Korea, maybe the most revealing involves a federal lawsuit aimed at the businesses of one Chinese entrepreneur.
Chi Yupeng, a 48-year-old Chinese accountant, controls a network of companies that in recent years imported $700 million of North Korean coal.
And in return for the North Korean coal, according to U.S. officials, Chi’s companies sent back to North Korea an array of products: cellphones, sugar, luxury items and, perhaps most importantly, components of nuclear devices and missiles.
Continued: http://www.standard.net/World/2017/08/23/How-a-Chinese-entrepreneur-evaded-sanctions-and-financed-Kim-Jong-Un-s-nuclear-weapons-program
If a businessman can do this, what can they do for terrorists? A bit of a frightening thought. Also, I was reading earlier about how, despite sanctions, there are ways, they can try to skirt such sanctions, set up smaller companies to receive the sanctioned products, etc.
Also, the story in the other thread is interesting and business insider is reporting on that too.
