South Korean Gets Three Years for Illegal Arms Exports
A South Korean man was sentenced to nearly three years in prison on Tuesday for his role in a scheme to buy military engines for Black Hawk helicopters and then divert them to China.
Kwonhwan Park and his Malaysian company, SGS, claimed that the two engines were either for the Malaysian Army or the South Korean Army in an application to the State Department but the shipment actually was sent to China from Malaysia.
U.S. District Judge Mark Kravitz ordered Park, who pleaded guilty to violating the Arms Export Control Act and conspiracy charges in November, to serve 32 months in prison. After the completion of his prison term, Park is subject to deportation.
The specific violation was failing to file accurate disclosures under the Arms Export Control Act.
Park was captured at Washington’s Dulles International Airport in April 2004, trying to board a plane bound for Beijing with an advanced night-vision goggles system in his baggage.
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