Chinese Citizen Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Attempt to Hand Carry Restricted Technology to China
A 41-year-old citizen, YUE WU, of the People’s Republic of China was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 18 months in prison for Conspiracy to Violate the Arms Export Control Act. YUE WU was arrested as he prepared to leave the United States from the San Francisco International Airport.
WU began his efforts to obtain a type of accelerometer which is used in satellites and spacecraft and can only be exported from the United States if a license is issued by the U.S. State Department. On multiple occasions WU attempted to convince a contact to send the accelerometers to China either disguised in a different export, or via a different country. WU did not know that the person he was working with to obtain the equipment was an undercover law enforcement agent. Over the next two years, via email and telephone communications from China, WU continued to try to get the contact to ship him the accelerometers through various schemes.
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