Epoch Times:
LOS ANGELES/TORONTO—An elaborate scheme to send U.S. technology with military applications to China at one point involved using Air China pilots, U.S. authorities allege.
In January 2018, the FBI arrested Americans Yi-Chi Shih and Kiet Anh Mai for allegedly buying microchips that can be used for military applications from a U.S. company under the pretense that they were for domestic use, while scheming to send the technology to China. A third suspect, Canadian Ishiang Shih—a professor at McGill University and Yi-Chi Shih’s brother—is also charged by U.S. authorities in relation to the case, although he hasn’t yet been extradited and is free in Canada.
Documents related to the ongoing court proceedings of Yi-Chi Shih in California allege his involvement in sending restricted technology to China began as early as 2005. Prosecutors say from this time until 2009, he shipped microchips to his contacts in China either via Singapore or by giving them to Air China pilots in Los Angeles to fly to China.
Requests for comment from Air China on the claims received no response.
Among the evidence included in the court case is a PowerPoint presentation from 2012 which authorities say contains the names of both Shih brothers. Prosecutors allege the presentation was a “business plan for the development of a semiconductor foundry in the PRC to manufacture MMICs [monolithic microwave integrated circuits].”
MMICs are used for electronic warfare, radar, and military communications, among other applications
The presentation lists the name of the U.S. company specializing in the manufacturing of MMICs, whose technology was later sent to China without the company’s knowledge in the alleged scheme involving the Shih brothers and Mai.
Court documents say Ishiang Shih sent two separate emails to his brother in 2012, attaching presentations that had details on MMIC technology, including those of the unnamed U.S. company.
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Sooner/later will we see DiFi’s footprints, along with her “former” Ch. driver? No, never.
If there is tie-in with Trudeauland, all bets are off. He still would love to have his own extradition treaty with Beijing.
With these two at the controls. Careful about ‘pig’. See UBS, which wasn’t even a joke.
http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3727494
You’d think a nation full of supposed math and engineer whizzes would develop their own military applications. I guess the myth of the Asian STEM professional is way overstated.
@BigOwe; this is an election year so the minute the US sends the extradition request he’ll be before a judge arguing the case not to send him and he’ll then be crossing the Ambassador Bridge before the lock the courtroom up for the night.
these Chinks cannot pronounce the word “Pilots”. But it’s fitting when they say it as “Air China Pirates”