A regional court in the Russian Far East has sentenced a South Korean national Kim Jong Hon to pay 500.000 rubles (about $19.000) fine for illegally shipping radioactive equipment from Libya in 2004.

Jong Hon, the president of All Nations Limited Company was arrested December 2004 for using forged documents to bring equipment containing depleted uranium to Sakhalin Island of Russia. The equipment brought to construct a liquefied natural gas plant had no mark of radiation.

The court admitted Jong Hon to be guilty with no intention to appeal the judgment the RIA-Novosti news agency reported.

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