Chinese man accused of smuggling parts with nuclear weapon dual use to Iran

A Chinese man accused of conspiring to export devices to Iran that can be used in nuclear weapons production has been brought to the United States on Friday to face charges.
The “pressure transducers” devices sent to Iran through china were featured in pictures of nuclear centrifuge plants that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former president of the clerical regime released to the public, U.S. federal prosecutors said.
The man who arranged those shipments, Chinese citizen Sihai Cheng, landed in federal custody at Logan International Airport in Boston after was he was extradited to from the United Kingdom.
He was arrested on U.S. terrorism charges last February during a visit to the United Kingdom.
An indictment accuses Cheng of establishing shell companies in China to receive pressure-measuring sensors known as “pressure transducers” from the Shanghai subsidiary of MKS Instruments Inc., based in Andover, Massachusetts.
During the 2009 scheme to supply the Iranian regime with the technical goods, Cheng and six co-defendants placed ordered for pressure transducers through MKS, and had them shipped to MKS-Shanghai.
Once there, the parts made their way to Tehran where they were installed at nuclear enrichment facilities.