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  • Chinese financier Le Fang Wei indicted in plot to send nuclear materials to Iran

    04/07/2009 10:52:01 AM PDT · by Lorianne · 7 replies · 532+ views
    NY Daily News ^ | April 7th 2009 | Melissa Grace
    A Chinese financier was indicted Tuesday on charges of laundering millions of dollars through New York banks to send Iran materials to make nuclear weapons. Le Fang Wei, 37, used a half-dozen unwitting New York banks along with an assortment of aliases and phony businesses to pull off his sinister plot, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said. "There's not much doubt that the use is for weapons," he said of the sales. "There is no greater threat to the world today than Iran's efforts to procure nuclear weapons and long range ballistics missiles." Wei was charged with conspiracy and falsifying...