May 8, 2018

Korean national Un Hag Baeg has been sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to pay $7.26 million in restitution for his role in a scheme to evade the payment of excise taxes on cigarettes by falsely claiming that the cigarettes had been exported. Baeg, who operated Far East Marine Ship Supply Company, which provided services to cargo ships, created false records claiming that the cigarettes had been delivered to various ships for export, when they were in fact diverted for sale in the U.S.  DOJ

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