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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 was found to have been involved in an illegal scheme to obtain monolithic microwave integrated circui...

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 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the judge fined him $300,000. Shih was arrested in January 2019 af...

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 to the U.S. Attorney's Office. After a seven-week jury trial that concluded in July 2019, Shih was ...

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 contained a lot of hand-sanitizer liquid. But it belonged to an Iranian woman who was onboard the Qatar ...

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.