The US Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia on Thursday unsealed indictments against 28 North Korean and five Chinese representatives of North Korea’s Foreign Trade Bank (FTB) who are or were posted in China, Russia, Libya, Thailand, Kuwait, and Austria. The North Korea Sanctions Regulations later put additional restrictions on dealings with the North Korean financial industry. – Violations of the North Korea sanctions regulations, violations of the weapons of mass destruction proliferation sanctions regulations. It might be more than the combined total of USAO DC’s asset forfeiture against North Korean targets since it went to work in 2017. As with the naming of other North Korean agents earlier, the naming and indictment of these 33 FTB agents will cause the financial system to exclude them, and to freeze and close their accounts.

Source: Libya Today May 29, 2020 01:52 UTC