North Korean businessman Mun Chol Myong, the first North Korean national to ever be extradited to the U.S., was sentenced Friday on one count of money laundering conspiracy and four counts of money laundering, the Justice Department announced.
At the time of his 2019 arrest, Mun had been living in Malaysia for a decade, according to Asia-Pacific current affairs magazine The Diplomat. After a two-year fight over his extradition, Malaysia’s judiciary ruled to honor the U.S. extradition request in March 2021.
Between April 2013 and November 2018, Mun and co-conspirators used front companies and falsified records to trick U.