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An electrical engineer from Los Angeles who plotted to steal missile technology and sell it to a Chinese company has been sentenced to more than five years in prison. U.S. District Judge John A. Kronstadt sentenced Yi-Chi Shih, 66, of Hollywood Hills, to 63 months—or more than five years—in prison for his role in the scheme. He was also ordered to pay $362,698 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the judge fined him $300,000. Shih was arrested in January 2019 after he w...

Los Angeles Electrical Engineer Gets Five Years in Prison for Selling Missile Technology to China Posted on An electrical engineer from Los Angeles who plotted to steal missile technology and sell it to a Chinese company has been sentenced to more than five years in prison. U.S. District Judge John A. Kronstadt sentenced Yi-Chi Shih, 66, of Hollywood Hills, to 63 months—or more than five years—in prison for his role in the scheme. He was also ordered to pay $362,698 in restitution to the I...

By City News Service Photo: Getty Images LOS ANGELES (CNS) - An electrical engineer from the Hollywood Hills who schemed to illegally obtain integrated circuits with military applications that were exported to China without the required filing of electronic export information was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison. Yi-Chi Shih, 66, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John A. Kronstadt, who also ordered him to pay $362,698 in restitution to the IRS and fined him $300,000, according...

Saturday, 10 Jul 2021 11:26 Israeli media citing officials say that a security scare at the Brussels airport on Thursday that led to a 90-minute evacuation of two departure halls, might have been an Iranian operation to test security of Israeli flights. An unattended bag that was discovered by Israeli security agents near an Israel-bound flight caused the evacuation of the building and the forced return of a flight bound for Qatar. The bag did not include any dangerous material and simply cont...

Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): The United States announced a series of actions aimed against forced labour in China's Xinjiang, which is said to have detained more than a million members of ethnic minorities, including Uyghur Muslims.

Exploring the troubling background of Reddit Director of Policy Jessica Ashooh, her links to a dictatorship and hawkish think tanks.

Exploring the troubling background of Reddit Director of Policy Jessica Ashooh, her links to a dictatorship and hawkish think tanks.

1. BIS Eliminates Reporting Requirements for Certain Encryption Items Effective March 29, 2021, BIS eliminated or reduced reporting requirements for certain encryption items. For encryption source code and beta test software that is made publicly available, companies will no longer have to notify BIS unless the cryptography used is “non-standard.” Only source code that implements proprietary or unpublished encryption must be reported to the U.S. government before release from control under ...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In response to a variety of activities allegedly undertaken by Russia, the U.S. Government has imposed a series of additional sanctions and export control measures since early March.  Collectively, the March and April sanctions take a variety of forms, including the suspension of entry into the United States and the denial of visas to certain non-U.S. citizens, denial of government credit an...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On April 29, 2021, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced two settlements of potential civil liability with two companies over their apparent violations of its regulations. The companies, MoneyGram Payment Systems, Inc. (MoneyGram) and SAP SE (SAP), operate in sectors of the economy—payments and software—that present unique sanctions risks and compliance challenges. The two settleme...