A Korean man identified only as Kim, has been fined 500,000 rubles (US$ 18,765) by a Russian court on charges of illegally importing radioactive material to Sakhalin Island.Kim, who runs a company in Korea, was fined by the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk court for smuggling equipment containing depleted uranium he had picked up in Libya into the country in June 2004, prosecutors said.
Chosun reports importing equipment for use in the construction of a liquefied natural gas plant, Kim forged customs documents and told his employees not to declare that the load also contained depleted uranium.
