Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/12/29
By: Yeh Su-ping, Elaine Hou and Kuan-lin Liu
Taipei, Dec. 29 (CNA) The Presidential Office denied claims made by a South Korean news
Presidential Office spokesman Alex Huang (黃重諺)/CNA file photo
outlet that a Taiwanese company was behind a Hong Kong-registered vessel that secretly transferred oil to a North Korean vessel in October, an action prohibited by the United Nations Security Council’s latest sanctions against Pyongyang.
The Presidential Office addressed a claim made by The Korea Herald on Friday that claimed a Taiwanese company, Billions Bunker Group, chartered a Hong Kong vessel to transfer oil to a North Korean vessel in international waters in a ship-to-ship transfer prohibited by the United Nations Security Council.
Taiwan’s Maritime and Port Bureau under the Ministry of Transportation and Communications later confirmed that the ship used in the oil transfer was registered in Hong Kong and leased by Billions Bunker Group which is registered in the Marshal Islands.
However, reports indicate that U.S. intelligence sources informed the bureau that the owner of that company is a Taiwan national. [FULL STORY]
