Smuggling US military technology
| Rudolph Muller | September 30, 2008 | No comments |
Rudolph Muller
Rudolph Muller is the editor at MyBroadband and covers telecoms and broadband news. Rudolph comes from an academic background, but left the University of...
| Full Profile |
A Chinese woman was jailed for one year on Friday after pleading guilty to attempting to smuggle sensitive military-grade technology to her homeland, justice officials said.
Qing Li was also fined $7 500 (about R63 000) after admitting a charge of conspiring to illegally export accelerometers used for measuring shockwaves back to China.
The accelerometer, manufactured by California-based Endevco, is designated as a defence article by US authorities and cannot be exported without permission from the state department.
Qing was arrested after a sting operation between April and October last year, where she negotiated with an undercover Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent about delivering an accelerometer to China.
Court documents said Qing had conspired with an individual identified as "Wang," who wanted the technology for a "special" scientific agency in China.
TomTom devices to tell good drivers from bad ones
TomTom satnavs will in future help insurers tell the difference between a good driver and a bad one under a scheme designed to revive the Dutch navigation device maker’s flagging fortunes
Nokia timeline of recent events
Here are key measures and events that took place since Chief Executive Stephen Elop took over Nokia in September 2010
Nokia cuts 4,000 more jobs
Struggling Finnish phone maker Nokia plans to cut 4,000 more jobs at its plants in Finland, Hungary and Mexico as it seeks to cut costs by moving smartphone assembly work to Asia