N.J. Man Faces Charges in Nuclear Case Saturday November 1, 2003 4:46 AM
By LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - An engineer was arrested Friday on charges that he sent off blueprints for critical nuclear-plant parts knowing they might be headed for North Korea.
A criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan accused Sitaraman Ravi Mahadevan, 40, of Marlton, N.J., of shipping blueprints for valves to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Inc. in New York, knowing they might be sent to North Korea.
Mahadevan allegedly shipped six packages containing approximately 90 blueprints to Mitsubishi, one of the contractors responsible for constructing the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization's nuclear plant in North Korea, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said the export of the valves or their blueprints to any nuclear facility in North Korea without a valid government export license is prohibited.
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