Two Men Sentenced for Illicit Detector Shipments to Syria
A judge for the U.S. District Court in Scranton, Pennsylvania, sentenced two men for their involvement in a conspiracy to illegally export goods to Syria, the Department of Justice said (here). U.S. District Court Judge for the Middle District of…
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Pennsylvania Malachy Mannion on Oct. 25 sentenced Ahmad Feras Diri of London to 37 months in prison, a $45,698 penalty and a $100 fine, DOJ said. London Metropolitan Police arrested Diri in March 2013, and extradited him to the U.S. on the charges against him. Mannion also sentenced Harold Rinko, 74, of Hallstead, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 13, to 12 months of home confinement, a $45,698 penalty, a $2,600 fine and a two-year term of supervised release. A third man accused in the conspiracy, Syrian citizen Moawea Deri, remains a fugitive, DOJ said. Rinko operated an export business in Hallstead, and conspired with Diri to export portable detectors for chemical warfare agents from the U.S. through Jordan, the United Arab Emirates or the United Kingdom, into Syria, DOJ said. The men used false invoices undervaluing and mislabeling the purchased goods and listed false information about buyers’ identities and locations. Homeland Security Investigations within ICE and the Commerce Department’s Office of Export Enforcement investigated the case.