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| Singapore man extradited to D.C. in export case over roadside bombs in Iraq | Singapore man extradited to D.C. in export case over roadside bombs in Iraq |
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| A Singapore man pleaded not guilty Monday after being extradited from Indonesia to face federal charges in Washington of furthering an illegal export conspiracy in which radio frequency modules made in the United States ended up in the detonation systems of roadside bombs targeting coalition forces in Iraq. | |
| Lim Yong Nam, also known as Steven Lim, 42, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson of the District of Columbia and was ordered held pending a detention hearing set for Thursday. | |
| “Mr. Lim takes these allegations very seriously, and he is anxious to resolve this matter,” said Lim’s attorney, Shanlon Wu of the Wu, Grohovsky & Whipple law firm in Washington. | |
| Lim was indicted in June 2010 on charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States, smuggling, illegal export of goods to Iran and making false statements. | Lim was indicted in June 2010 on charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States, smuggling, illegal export of goods to Iran and making false statements. |
| [U.S. modules used to trigger IEDs in Iraq, officials say] | [U.S. modules used to trigger IEDs in Iraq, officials say] |
| Also charged in the indictment, unsealed in October 2011, were four other men and four of their companies: Hossein Larijani, a citizen and resident of Iran, who owned a company in Singapore, Opto Electronics, and another in Tehran, Paya Electronics Complex; and Wong Yuh Lan, Lim Kow Seng and Hia Soo Gan Benson, all citizens of Singapore, prosecutors said. | |
| The Justice Department alleged the four citizens of Singapore falsely told a Minnesota-based firm that made the modules that the parts were for a telecommunications project in Singapore. The indictment contended that after the modules arrived in Singapore, they were forwarded to Iran by air freight through third countries in an illegal export of U.S. technology to Iran. | |
| Lim Kow Seng and Hia pleaded guilty in 2013, were released upon completion of their prison sentences in June and April 2014, respectively, and ordered to be returned to Singapore. Larijani and Wong remain at large, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District. | |
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