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Three Charged in US For Sending Chemical Equipment to Syria

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US prosecutors charged a Pennsylvania man and two foreign citizens with conspiring to illegally export chemical warfare detection devices and laboratory equipment to Syria, as a statement by the Pennsylvania Prosecutor's Office was cited by Fox News on Thursday.

According to the statement, between 2003 and 2012, US citizen from Pennsylvania Harold Rinko, London-based Ahmad Diri and his brother MoaweaDeri from Syria supplied portable scan ers used for detecting chemical weapons and other equipment to Syria from the US via other countries.

The men are accused of illegally shipping goods to Syria through other countries for nine years by creating false invoices that mislabeled the items, undervalued them and listed false purchasers and end users.
The violators exported the banned goods by falsely labeling the packages and stating false prices and customers.

Apart from illegal deliveries, the alleged smugglers are accused of plotting, fraud, money laundering and false testimonies.

Fox News reports that Rinko has already pled guilty. Diri was arrested in London in March 2013 and is expected to be extradited to the US. Deri is currently at large.

A federal judge unsealed the case after the prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Hinkley, signed a plea agreement for one of three men charged in 2012.
A 31-page indictment did not say how authorities discovered the alleged scheme, and Hinkley said he could not comment on it. Investigators also do not know who in Syria ultimately used the items.

"We know they were exported to Syria," Hinkley said. "The end user information we weren't able, at least to this point, to develop in the investigation."

Prosecutors say the items included portable instruments used to detect, measure and classify chemical agents; masks used in civil defense against chemical agents; laboratory equipment; industrial engines used in oil and gas fields; and a device used to locate buried pipelines.

Countries allegedly used as way stations to transship the items included the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and the United Kingdom.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team