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Businessman Pleads Guilty to Illegal Exportation of Computer Parts

By McNabb Associates

According to recently released court records, a U.S. businessman has pleaded guilty to installing a restricted U.S. satellite system on an Iranian government oil tanker and smuggling computer equipment to the Iranian ballistic missile program.[1]The businessman, Mohammad Farahbakhsh, was also an Iranian national and naturalized U.S. citizen who had been residing in Los Angeles.[2] According to court records, he pleaded guilty to unlawful export of U.S. commodities to Iran from the United States. Due to ?extraordinary family circumstances relating to the health of a family member?, he was sentenced to time already served in prison.[3]The records do not state how much time Farahbakhsh served, the date in which he entered the plea or if public hearings were conducted for his plea and sentencing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Federal Crimes Blog on March 10, 2008 (boomark / email).