The US offered $5 million (S$7 million) on Thursday to locate a Singaporean businessman suspected of breaching sanctions against North Korea, including through oil shipments on a vessel seized last year.
North Korea launched a barrage of missiles, including one that fell near to South Korea's seas, prompting the United States to advocate stringent enforcement of United Nations sanctions against the country.
The State Department offered up to $5 million for Kwek Kee Seng-related information.
Numerous fuel supplies and ship-to-ship transfers to North Korea, as well as money laundering through front businesses, are attributed to him.
In 2021, federal prosecutors in New York obtained an arrest warrant for Kwek, one year after Cambodia seized one of his oil tankers, the M/T Courageous, for alleged sanctions breaches.
Kwek, age 62, runs the Singaporean maritime firm Swanseas Port Services.
The Rewards for Justice program of the State Department stated that his precise whereabouts was unknown and that he had been recognized in North Korea, Cambodia, Taiwan, and Thailand, as well as Cameroon and the small Caribbean nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis. AFP
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