Indonesia`s richest busted breaking NoKo sanctions
(WorldNews Indonesia)

JAKARTA – The US Justice Department has reached a US$1.5 million settlement with a company owned by Indonesia`s richest family for 28 violations of trading sanctions imposed on North Korea to pressure it to abandon its nuclear weapons program. PT Bukit Muria Jaya (BMJ), a minor subsidiary of tobacco giant Djarum, has also entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department for allegedly conspiring to commit bank fraud in connection with the export of cigarette papers to Pyongyang. In addition, it was compelled to sign a settlement agreement with the US Treasury Department`s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), according to a Justice Department statement issued on...