Latest UN Panel of Experts report on #DPRK sanctions evasion has just been published: undocs.org/S/2020/151. Some interesting bits, a thread. (1/?)
DPRK apparently continuing to deploy IT workers abroad, securing freelance contracts with unwitting clients in Canada, China, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine and the US. (2/?)
DPRK workers remain abroad, despite the UN requirement to repatriate. Workers make use of other visa categories or move to third countries instead of returning to DPRK. (As it has been suspected they would.) (3/?)
Several instances cited here of reported presence of DPRK medical professionals in African countries. 🥼 Not a new trend by any means. Pretty annoying that this is still a thing. (4/?)
Canada has also apparently had academic exchange programmes that may have involved DPRK nationals somehow (?) (5/?)
On the strictly #PF side of things, payments (to Belarus) for exports to North Korea of luxury vodka were made through a human resources company 🤔 Meanwhile, the usual shenanigans involving front companies and UBO obfuscation continue. (6/?)
On DPRK diplomats: After a request to withdraw 💰 from a frozen account by a DPRK front company was denied, the 🇰🇵 embassy in Austria requested the release of the funds to pay the salary of one of its diplomats, under the pretence that he was working for the company. (END)
There’s plenty more interesting things to dig through here, but I won’t spoil the fun.
