A Chinese national was sentenced on Wednesday to 97 months in prison after being convicted last year of illegally exporting US military equipment to China for several years, the US department of justice said.
A Chinese national was sentenced on Wednesday to 97 months in prison after being convicted last year of illegally exporting US military equipment to China for several years, the US department of justice said.
Department officials in Boston said that Zhen Zhou Wu, 46, traveled to the United States on an annual basis using business visas, and exported to China an array of goods. These included military electronics components and sensitive electronics used in military phased array radar, electronic warfare, and missile systems, they said.
Several Chinese military factories and military research institutes were among those to whom the defendant exported the equipment, they said.
The sentencing is the second within a week in a security case involving China, just days after Chinese President Hu Jintao wrapped up his high-profile US visit.
Wu made illegal exports to China 14 times between 2004 and 2007, and filed false shipping documents with the US department of commerce from 2005 through 2007.
"The key issue here is deterrence - there is a real need to deter this type of conduct going forward," US district court judge Patti Saris said during the sentencing hearing.
Wu owned and controlled a company, Chitron Electronics Inc of Waltham, Massachusetts, and used the company to procure the restricted equipment from US suppliers and then export the goods to China through Hong Kong.
The exported equipment is used in electronic warfare, military radar, fire control, military guidance and control equipment, missile systems, and satellite communications.
"This defendant and corporation violated US export laws and compromised our national security for more than a decade," said US attorney Carmen Ortiz.
On Friday, a Michigan man was sentenced to four years in prison for trying to get a job with the CIA so he could spy for China.
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