Financial Crime
The deal is the largest of its kind with the tobacco giant admitting it worked through intermediaries to hide its business with the sanctioned country.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un smoking a cigarette in the capital city of Pyongyang. British American Tobaccao has agreed to pay a $635 million penalty for selling cigarettes to the sanctioned country. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
Here’s one way to burn through money.
British American Tobacco has reached a settlement with the U.S. government to pay over $635 million in fines for selling cigarettes in North Korea, using secret intermediaries to sidestep sanctions, the company and U.S. authorities said.
As part of the agreement, the London-based company — which is one…
