Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea's second-largest flag carrier, has been ordered to pay about 14 billion won ($12 million) as a result of a tax probe into its business, industry sources said Wednesday.

The order was based on a probe conducted by the National Tax Service during the March-May period, the sources said. The airline has said it is just a regular probe that followed the previous one in 2011, adding that there is no particular issue.

The NTS, however, reportedly had focused its investigation on money that Asiana Airlines allegedly had spent for its parent, Kumho Asiana Group. Details were not available for the money in question.

Asiana Airlines did not elaborate, saying that it is a confidential matter. Nor did it say whether it will take any steps to appeal the NTS decision, just to note that nothing has been determined. (Yonhap)