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On December 18, 2012, the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Bureau of Industry and Security’s Office of Export Enforcement announced the unsealing of a 12-count indictment which charged Wan Li Yuan and another unknown Chinese resident with conspiracy to violate the Export Administration Regulations and smuggle goods, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and 10 counts of money laundering in connection with an attempt to obtain dual-use programmable logic devices (PLDs), which are manufactured by a semiconductor company in Hillsboro, Oregon. According to the indictment, while operating from the People’s Republic of China, Yuan used the alias “Nicholas Bush,” and a second Chinese resident used the alias “Jason Jiang” as they created a sophisticated scheme to conceal their true identity and location in order to mislead US companies into believing they were dealing with American customers so that the defendants could procure and send sensitive technologies to China without the required export licenses. Yuan allegedly requested US companies to ship the desired parts to the address of a freight forwarder in New York, which he also falsely represented as being associated with the New York company whose business name Yuan had stolen. Through the investigation and use of an undercover operation, the FBI and Department of Commerce were able to seize approximately $414,000 in funds sent by Yuan as down payments for the Lattice PLDs. United States v. Wan Li Yuan. http://www.fbi.gov/portland/press-releases/2012/two-chinese-individuals-charged-in-scheme-to-obtain-controlled-dual-use-american-technology |
USA – DOJ charges two Chinese individuals with scheme to obtain and export controlled dual use technology
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