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Extradited Chinese national guilty of supplying Iran with goods used to make nuclear weapons-grade uranium

Dec 21, 2015 4:50 pm By Robert Spencer

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“Extradited Chinese National Guilty of Supplying Iran with Goods Used to Make Nuclear Weapons-Grade Uranium,” FBI.gov, December 18, 2015 (thanks to Banafsheh):

BOSTON—A Chinese national pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with supplying Iran with pressure transducers which could be used to make nuclear weapons-grade uranium.

Sihai Cheng, a/k/a Chun Hai Cheng, a/k/a Alex Cheng, 35, a citizen of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiring to commit export violations and smuggle goods from the United States to Iran and four counts of illegally exporting U.S. manufactured pressure transducers to Iran. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Patti B. Saris scheduled sentencing for Jan. 27, 2016.

In 2013, Cheng was charged in an indictment along with Seyed Abolfazl Shahab Jamili, an Iranian national, and two Iranian companies, Nicaro Eng. Co., Ltd. (Nicaro) and Eyvaz Technic Manufacturing Company (Eyvaz), with conspiring to export, and exporting, highly sensitive U.S. manufactured goods with nuclear applications to Iran from at least 2009 to 2012. In December 2014, Cheng was extradited from the United Kingdom to this county and has remained in U.S. custody since then. Jamili remains a fugitive, and the U.S. government, through Interpol, has requested his arrest to face prosecution in the United States.

From February 2009 through at least 2011, Cheng, Jamili, and a third individual conspired with each other and others in the PRC and Iran to illegally obtain hundreds of U.S. manufactured pressure transducers manufactured by MKS Instruments, Inc., a company headquartered in Massachusetts, and export them to Iran. Pressure transducers can be used in gas centrifuges to enrich uranium and produce weapons-grade uranium and are therefore subject to strict export controls. They cannot be shipped from the United States to China without an export license or shipped from the United States to Iran at all. Today, Cheng admitted to causing the export of 185 pressure transducers from the United States to Iran in 2009.

Initially, the parts were exported to the PRC using fraudulently obtained U.S. Department of Commerce export licenses. When they arrived in the PRC, Cheng inspected them in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone and removed their U.S./MKS serial numbers to conceal the fact that he was violating U.S. law. Cheng then caused the MKS pressure transducers to be exported to Iran knowing that the parts were being supplied to the Government of Iran. Jamili advised Cheng that the Iranian end-user was Kalaye Electronic Company, which the U.S. Government designated as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction in 2007 for its work with Iran’s nuclear centrifuge program.

MKS Instruments, Inc., is not a target of this investigation and has been cooperating in this matter.

The charging statutes provide a sentence of no greater than 20 years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to commit export violations and on each of the four counts of illegally exporting U.S. goods to Iran; and no greater than five years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to smuggle U.S. goods to Iran, in addition to five years of supervised release and a fine of $4 million. Actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalties. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors….

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  1. Don McKellar says

    Dec 21, 2015 at 4:57 pm

    The only questions I have are:

    What happens during that last week of the Obama regime when Iran does its first nuclear bomb test? What will Obama do?

    And what will President Trump do once he starts his first term the next week?

    • Voytek Gagalka says

      Dec 21, 2015 at 5:37 pm

      Answer to your question #1: Obama will do nothing beyond perhaps stating that any such nuke test has absolutely nothing to do with letter and spirit of signed agreement.

      Answer to question #2: Trump probably also will do nothing, placating recent praises of himself coming from Mr. Putin (President of Russia, a friend and ally of Iran) on which Mr. Trump was so euphoric about.

      • greg says

        Dec 21, 2015 at 6:01 pm

        The UK is also a friend of Iran….BP has been the company developing Iranian oil since it was first found in Iran….except for 6 months after the Iranian revolution

    • Angemon says

      Dec 21, 2015 at 6:53 pm

      If a Republican gets elected President, I suspect the Iranians will back down.

  2. More Ham Ed says

    Dec 21, 2015 at 8:20 pm

    Excellent photo. A picture is worth a thousand arabic words.

  3. Baucent says

    Dec 22, 2015 at 7:11 am

    You can almost guarantee that Cheng is a Chinese government operative. He couldn’t have pulled that off without at least some level of approval and assistance from the Chinese state. What does China get out of it? oil contracts, influence and arms sales.

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