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WASHINGTON, March 14 (AFP): A US company and the Indian head of an international firm have admitted to violating laws on export of weapons technology and nuclear power testing equipment to India, the US Justice Department said Thursday. Parthasarathy Sudarshan, the Indian CEO of Cirrus Electronics with offices in the United States, Singapore and India, pleaded guilty in Washington Thursday to a charge of shipping restricted weapons technology to the Indian government. He admitted exporting controlled microprocessors and electronic components to Indian state entities involved in developing ballistic missiles, space launch vehicles and fighter jets. In the second case, Minnesota company MTS Systems Corp. was fined 400,000 dollars after it pleaded guilty Wednesday in connection with submitting false US export license applications over proposed shipments to India, the Justice Department said. The company admitted to two misdemeanor counts of false certification or writing by omitting critical information linked to test equipment for nuclear-power plants. (Posted @ 09:25 PST)
- DAWN - Latest Stories; March 14, 2008
- DAWN - Latest Stories; March 14, 2008
