Posted on 09/21/2013 9:11:41 PM PDT by TexGrill
WASHINGTON Two Singapore men were sentenced Friday in federal court in Washington for their roles in plots to illegally export 55 military antennas from the United States to Singapore and Hong Kong.
Lim Kow Seng, also known as Eric Lim, and Hia Soo Gan Benson also known as Benson Hia, were sentenced to 37 months and 34 months in prison, respectively. They pleaded guilty in June to conspiracy to defraud the United States by dishonest means.
Seng, 44, and Hia, 46, were arrested in Singapore in 2011 and extradited to the U.S.
According to court documents, the two and others conspired to defraud the United States by illegally exporting 55 cavity-backed spiral antennas and biconical antennas from a Massachusetts company to Singapore and Hong Kong without the required State Department license.
The antennas are controlled for export as U.S. munitions and are used for airborne or shipboard direction finding systems or radar warning receiver applications. Some are also used in military aircraft.
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“....defraud the United States by dishonest means.”
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That’s a double whammy — why can’t people defraud the system by honest means like government does?
They are not very mysterious antennas to design from scratch, plenty of literature out there.
“...conspiracy to defraud the United States by dishonest means...”
I know it’s early, and even with coffee, I had to re-read that 3x.
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