Woman gets 4 years for shipping plane parts to Iran
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:17:11 GMT
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A US court has handed an American citizen, who pleaded guilty to exporting airplane parts to Iran, a sentence of almost four years in prison.
Laura Wang-Woodford, who ran a firm called Monarch Aviation Pte Ltd. in Singapore, was handed out a 46-month jail sentence on Thursday for what the US Justice Department described as conspiring to violate the US trade embargo.
The federal court in New York also ordered her to pay a 500,000-dollar fine to the US Treasury Department.
Wang-Woodford was detained at the San Francisco International Airport on December 23, 2007 after the US government issued a 20-count indictment against her and her husband, Brian D. Woodford.
According to the indictment, between January 1998 and December 2007, the defendants exported controlled airplane parts from the US to their companies in Singapore and then shipped them to Iran without acquiring a license.
The indictment said that the aircraft parts in question included aircraft shields, shears, "o" rings and switch assemblies
Laura Wang-Woodford, who ran a firm called Monarch Aviation Pte Ltd. in Singapore, was handed out a 46-month jail sentence on Thursday for what the US Justice Department described as conspiring to violate the US trade embargo.
The federal court in New York also ordered her to pay a 500,000-dollar fine to the US Treasury Department.
Wang-Woodford was detained at the San Francisco International Airport on December 23, 2007 after the US government issued a 20-count indictment against her and her husband, Brian D. Woodford.
According to the indictment, between January 1998 and December 2007, the defendants exported controlled airplane parts from the US to their companies in Singapore and then shipped them to Iran without acquiring a license.
The indictment said that the aircraft parts in question included aircraft shields, shears, "o" rings and switch assemblies
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