US firm pleads guilty in military tech illegal export
A U.S. defense company pleaded guilty on Tuesday to exporting sensitive military technology to foreign countries without a proper license, according to foreign media reports.
Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Instrument Company (RMI) has been accused of selling optical prisms and technical data used in various military applications to Russia, Turkey, South Korea and China from April 2005 to October 2007.
A U.S. District Court in Colorado sentenced RMI to the forfeiture of $1 million and to five years of probation and oversight.
The prisms and technical data exported by RMI are items on the United States Munitions List of military defense products that companies are not allowed to export to foreign countries without permission from the U.S. State Department.