Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/01/19
By: Chen Chi-fong and Kuan-lin Liu
Kaohsiung, Jan. 19 (CNA) A Taiwanese businessman denied selling oil to North Korea 
As Chen Shih-hsien (陳世憲) was wheeled out of the hospital following his discharge, he told reporters he wanted to prove his innocence by taking his own life.
News broke at the end of last year that a Taiwanese man chartered a Hong Kong-registered vessel through the Billions Bunker Group to secretly transfer oil to North Korea, an action the latest United Nations sanctions prohibited.
As head of the company Chen was later identified as the suspect and the many overseas companies he controls were put on a sanctions list by Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice-led Terrorism Financing Prevention Review Committee. [FULL STORY]