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Singapore jails man who threw computer into sea to cover up North Korea oil transfer
- Jeremy Koh Renfeng pleaded guilty to intentionally obstructing the course of justice by providing false information and disposing of a CPU in the sea
- He was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for his involvement in trying to cover up the transfer of marine gas oil to a North Korean vessel
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A 40-year-old man who falsified information in a bid to cover up Singapore-flagged vessel MT Sea Tanker II’s involvement in transferring marine gas oil to a North Korean vessel was sentenced to six months’ jail on Monday by a district court.
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Jeremy Koh Renfeng, who was a former cargo officer of the vessel, pleaded guilty to two charges of intentionally obstructing the course of justice by providing false information in the ship’s official log book, and dismantling and disposing of a computer’s central processing unit (CPU) into the sea.
An additional similar charge was taken into consideration during sentencing.
His co-conspirators Benny Tan Chun Kiat and Ong Chou Hong were sentenced previously to six and nine months’ jail respectively.
The court heard that Koh was a cargo officer whose job was to track and record the quantity of marine gas oil on MT Sea Tanker II and supervise the transfer of gas oil from ship to other vessels.
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