Posted on 04/20/2010 10:38:25 PM PDT by Cindy
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April 16, 2010
ICE agents seize $8 million helicopter planned for illegal shipment to Iran
ARLINGTON, Texas - Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday seized a Bell helicopter with an estimated value of $8 million that was destined for shipment to Iran in violation of trade sanctions.
Federal agents had first grounded the helicopter in its Arlington, Texas, hangar in December. The aircraft is owned by the Italian company Tiber Aviation.
U.S. Federal District Judge John McBryde, Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division, signed the civil arrest warrant to seize the aircraft.
"This case shows how U.S. export laws help protect this country by preventing others from using our own technology against us," said John Chakwin Jr., special agent in charge of the ICE Office of Investigations in Dallas. "ICE acts as one of the prime enforcers of export laws."
Exporting aircraft components and other goods to Iran without obtaining licenses from the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) violates the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
This is an ongoing joint investigation by ICE and the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security.
-- ICE --
Last Modified: Monday, April 19, 2010
what idiot in the western world would want to send anything to iran now? unless it’s a nuclear missile, special air delivery.
A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
That’s interesting and thank you smokingfrog.
Stepping back in time...
“Dallas agents ground helicopter believed to be on way to Iran”
10:31 PM CST on Saturday, December 12, 2009
By JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News
SNIPPET: “During their investigation, Commerce agents uncovered information showing that Tiber partnered with another Italian firm, Italiana Elicotteri, to get the helicopters to Iranian buyers.
Italiana Elicotteri, agents found, used Panalpina’s Luxembourg office to ship the helicopters from Italy to Iran.
Ernest acknowledges that Panalpina’s Luxembourg office arranged the shipment from Italy to Iran but says this was only done after getting appropriate approvals from Italian authorities as required by its compliance program.”
look for the media and hussein (but i repeat myself) to target the highest ranking registered republican in this so-called conspiracy, and say they are “soft on iran”.
They may have arrested the helo, but did they read it its rights?
I want it!!!
Looks like a modified Huey.
It is, sort of. Bell took the UH-1 (called the Model 205 in the civilian market) and created a twin-engined version called the 212. The 412 is based off the 212, with a four-bladed rotor. It’s used by a lot of air ambulance and fire departments.
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Thanks for the info. If Tiber has done this 2x perhaps something should be done about Tiber???
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