Bunker Holding chief Keld Demant has been given a four-month prison sentence for breaking European Union sanctions against jet fuel sales to Syria, and the Danish fuels group fined more than $5.2m.

Demant was handed the suspended sentence by the City Court of Odense and the bunker group's Dan-Bunkering unit was fined DKr30m ($4.6m) and parent company Bunker Holding, DKr4m ($610,000).