U.S. indicts North Koreans, accuses state-owned bank of evading sanctions
2020-05-29 08:47:49 source：Reuters
May 29, 2020
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department accused North Korea’s state-owned bank of evading U.S. sanctions laws and charged 28 North Korean and five Chinese citizens in its largest crackdown on North Korea sanctions violations.
In a grand jury indictment made public on Thursday, U.S. prosecutors accused North Korea’s Foreign Trade Bank (FTB) of conspiring with the employees charged to cause other banks “to process at least $2.5 billion in illegal payments via over 250 front companies.”
The United States blacklisted the FTB in 2013; the U.N. Security Council did so in 2017.
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