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| Canada jails man for nuclear exports to Iran |
| 2010-07-31 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] A Canadian man convicted of trying to send nuclear technology to his native Iran has been sentenced to 20 months in prison. In addition to his 20 months in jail, the Ontario Court of Justice sentenced Mahmoud Yadegar to another 15.5 months of pre-sentence custody, Canada's public prosecution service said in a statement. "Because the court granted double credit for pre-sentence custody, this amounts to a four-year, three-month sentence," the statement read. He was found guilty on July 6 of nine out of 10 charges, including offences under the Customs Act, the United Nations Act, and the Criminal Code. Prosecutors were seeking 6.5 years prison for Yadegari, 37, who was born in Iran but has been living in Canada since 1988. On March 4, 2009, Yadegari "attempted to export controlled material to Iran" via Dubai, read the statement. "The goods, known as pressure transducers, are subject to a United Nations embargo on nuclear-related exports to Iran." The items, it said, "are also on Canada's Export Control List." Yadegari was arrested in April 2009 following a two-month investigation carried out jointly with US officials, and is the first person convicted of violating UN anti-nuclear proliferation resolutions against the Tehran regime, Crown prosecutor Bradley Reitz said earlier. Yadegari could face maximum sentences of 10 years in prison or $482,000 in fines. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 ION TOPIX > NORTH KOREA WARHEAD TEST SEEMS TO BE PROBABLE. Next NOKOR test may be a WARHEAD-ON-A-ROCKET/MISSLE thingy. ARTIC >CHINA believes that NOKOR has "sufficient nuclear weapons manufacturing" capability, + now desires to dev or improve its ability to miniaturize potentially nuclear-capable new Warheads??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-07-31 01:51 |