Federal Court Sentences Chinese National to Jail in Scheme for Carbon Fiber Exports to China
A Chinese national on Aug. 31 was sentenced in a Manhattan federal court to three years in jail in connection with a scheme to conduct unauthorized exports to China of high-grade carbon fiber, primarily used in aerospace and military applications,…
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the Justice Department announced. The scheme by Fuyi Sun to export the fiber without a license violated the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, DOJ said. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein imposed the sentence Aug. 31 after Sun pleaded guilty on April 21. Since about 2011, Sun attempted to acquire “extremely high-grade carbon fiber,” contacting what he believed was a distributor of the commodity but which was actually an “undercover entity” created by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Homeland Security Investigations, DOJ said. Sun “suggested” the Chinese military was the ultimate end-user for the carbon fiber he sought to acquire, DOJ said, and on April 12, 2016, bought two cases of M60 from the undercover entity for $25,000. He was arrested the next day.