SINGAPORE: A company and its 49-year-old director will be charged in court on Friday (Jul 31) for allegedly providing flag registration services to a vessel designated by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for transporting prohibited items from North Korea.
Investigations found that the company provided flag registration services for the vessel PETREL 8 on May 18, 2022, said the Singapore Police Force (SPF) in a news release on Thursday.
The vessel had been placed on the UNSC sanctions list in 2017 under resolutions targeting North Korea’s prohibited activities.
“At the material time, it is alleged that the company director had reasonable grounds to believe that PETREL 8 was a UNSC-designated vessel involved in transporting prohibited items from the DPRK when the flag registration services were provided,” the police said, referring to the country’s formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
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