Muslim
pleads guilty to selling nuclear technology to Iran, by Robert Spencer,
6/27/16, Politichicks
The irony
here is that Obama has just given the Iranians so much money that they can
pursue many deals of this kind. Then the U.S. government prosecutes people like
Erdal Kuyumcu. If the U.S. government doesn’t want Iran to obtain material it
can use to build nuclear weapons, why did it give the Iranians so much money?
It won’t, after all, be able to monitor and stop all of Iran’s transactions the
way it did this one.
“Turkish
actor in US admits selling nuclear technology material to Iran,” by Nafiz
Albayrak, Doğan News Agency, June 15, 2016: A former Turkish actor, detained in
New York for illegally selling to Iran a restricted metallic powder used in
missile production, pleaded guilty on June 15.
Erdal
Kuyumcu, 44, the chief executive of Global Metallurgy LLC, pleaded guilty in a
Brooklyn federal court on June 15 to deliberately violating the International
Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which limits trade with Iran.
The
indictment said Kuyumcu collected more than 450 kilograms of cobalt-nickel metallic
powder, which is used in aerospace, missile production and nuclear
applications, to export them to Iran.
It added
that Kuyumcu, along with another partner, then hid the metal powder in Turkey
before sending it to Iran.
The
indictment demanded 20 years in prison for Kuyumcu, in addition to a $1 million
fine, but Kuyumcu is expected to be sentenced to up to five years in jail after
reaching a deal with the prosecutor’s office and disclosing the partners and
institutions involved in the plan.
The final
verdict on Kuyumcu will be given in October.
According
to a statement by the U.S. Justice Ministry, Kuyumcu sold nickel metal powder,
which he bought from a U.S. company in Ohio, to Iran via a firm in Turkey
without receiving a license from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of
Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
Kuyumcu’s
lawyer Patrick Mullin denied that the powder would have been used in missile
production, claiming that it was also often used for industrial purposes. Kuyumcu
had appeared in many TV series and movies in Turkey….
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