Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/09
By: Wang Yang-yu and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, July 9 (CNA) The Taipei District Prosecutors Office has summoned

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19 people, including the owner of a customs brokerage, for questioning as part of an investigation into their alleged involvement in selling a fuel used to make gunpowder to North Korea.

Led by Taipei prosecutors, law enforcement authorities performed a search Monday of customs brokerages and shipping companies after receiving a tip-off that a customs brokerage owner surnamed Chen starting using several Chinese ships last year to smuggle products to North Korea.

According to the tip, the Chinese ships were used as a cover to smuggle a special sugar that can be processed into gunpowder along with grains from Southeast Asia to North Korea through Japan and South Korea under the guise of exporting the products to the two countries.    [FULL  STORY]