TAIPEI, Taiwan — The son of a former Taiwanese legislator has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for a scheme that illegally supplied thousands of tons of fuel oil to North Korea.

Huang Chung-wei was sentenced to 28 months in prison by the district court in the southern port city of Kaohsiung on Tuesday. Five others also received prison terms.

They were convicted of taking part in loading the fuel onto ships in Taiwan and making the transfers in collaboration with Kwek Kee Seng, a Singaporean businessman wanted by the U.S. whose whereabouts were unknown.

Such activity is a violation of Taiwan's Counter-Terrorism Financing Act and other statutes. the court said.

Illegal transfers at sea are one of the few ways North Korea, an authoritarian dictatorship considered one of the

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