BIS Announces $100K Settlement of Singaporean for Conspiracy to Violate EAR
The Bureau of Industry and Security announced on August 10, 2011 that Jianwei Ding, of Singapore has agreed to pay a $100,000 civil penalty and have his export privileges denied for a period of 25 years, to settle allegations that he conspired to violate the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by knowingly and willfully attempting to export carbon fiber to China for use by the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) without the required U.S. Government authorization.
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The carbon fiber materials involved are controlled by BIS for nuclear non-proliferation and national security reasons and valued at approximately $315,000. BIS alleged that from February 2007, through at least April 2008, Ding conspired with others to export two types of this material to CAST in China, via Hong Kong and Singapore, without the required Department of Commerce licenses.
According to the press release, the items were stopped by Special Agents of BIS’s Office of Export Enforcement (OEE) before they could be exported. Ding subsequently was arrested by OEE Special Agents and Homeland Security Investigation Special Agents when he attempted to enter the U.S. Prior to settling BIS’s administrative charge, Ding entered a guilty plea to criminal charges of conspiracy to violate the EAR and was sentenced to a period of 46 months imprisonment.