India has asked the US for more information on the recent indictment of its national, suspected of violating export control laws of America to ship prohibitive items to official Indian agencies, saying it wanted to "get to the bottom" of the case.
WASHINGTON: India has asked the US for more information on the recent indictment of its national, suspected of violating export control laws of America to ship prohibitive items to official Indian agencies, saying it wanted to "get to the bottom" of the case.
"... we have seen reports and we saw an indictment. It is not two Indian nationals, it is one Indian national. And we actually asked today of the United States for information. We would like to know what is there," Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told reporters at the Indian Embassy here when asked to comment on the indictment and its implications.
Menon said "If there is something we should be looking at investigating, we'd like to get to the bottom of it. So we actually asked for information and we are hoping to get it."
The Justice Department has charged that agencies of the Indian government participated in a conspiracy to sidestep US export regulations and obtain secret weapons technology from American companies over several years.
The indictment goes on to slap charges against an electronics firm, Cirrus Inc., operating in Singapore, South Carolina and Bangalore, of working as an agent of the Indian government to obtain sensitive missile and weapons technology for its military programmes.
Four of the company officials including the founder Parthasarathy Sudarshan, were charged.
The indictment also has a number of unidentified co-conspirators including an official of the Indian Mission in Washington.
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