A BC man is in custody in the state of Washington, which is accused of acting as a mid-long conspiracy in order to smuggle US technology through Canada to circumvent laws to limit the nuclear ambitions of Pakistan.
According to an indictment submitted to the US district court in Minnesota, Mohammad Jawaid Aziz and two unnamed co-conspirators allegedly received thousands of dollars for forbidden equipment for Pakistani military and weapon programs.
The court documents claim that Aziz – also known as Jawaid Aziz Siddiqui – was targeted by a hidden US government agent in a stab who acted as an employee of a company Minnesota who was involved in the sale of mechanical devices who are known as linear actors.
The undercover surgery and the crimes at the time of the indictment until 2019 -but the US authorities say that Aziz had only been arrested on March 21 when he tried to drive from BC to the state of Washington, where he is currently being detained until Minnesota broadcast.
In a statement, the US Justice Ministry claimed from 2003 to March 2019 about a company based in Surrey called Diversified Technology Services, which he was based in Surrey in Surrey in Surrey.
“The purpose of the network was to receive the UAB Urprung on behalf of banned companies in the name of prohibited companies in Pakistan, which were associated with the nuclear, rocket and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) programs,” says the explanation.
“(Aziz) and his co-conspirators have worked to hide the true end users of the goods from US companies, often move with front companies and goods via third countries to discover the discovery.”
Buying goods for restricted companies “double use”
Aziz is charged with conspiracy for violating the law on international emergency management powers and the law on export control reform.
None of the allegations have been proven in court.
According to the indictment, the 67-year-old is a citizen of Pakistan and Canada. His two alleged co-conspirators are Pakistani citizens who are connected to the international trading company based in Karachi, a law firm that allegedly “procured US goods for banned companies in Pakistan”.
The court documents of detailed restrictions that the USA has tested a nuclear device for the first time since Pakistan in 1998 to keep the organizations involved in the development of nuclear weapons, rockets and drones “double use”.
A number of Pakistani government agencies and private laboratories were included in the so-called “entity list”-in one person in the Pakistani Nuclear Energy Energy Commission in Islamabad.
“It was part of the type and means of the conspiracy that the International Commercial Society would receive inquiries for offers and orders from organizations in Pakistan on the entity list or the front companies of these organizations,” the indictment said.
“Through diversified technology services and other companies that he used for similar purposes (Aziz), the procurement of the goods requested by the limited Pakistani companies would address us.”
US prosecutors claim that the goods would be sent either directly to Pakistan or in third countries. Aziz is also said to “sometimes get the goods in his residence in Canada”.
“You have a commercial application”
The court documents contain a detailed list of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth the value of Aziz, and its alleged co-conspirators are accused of buying, including thermal conductivity, a digital video microscope and a centrifugal pump.
The state sting took place in 2019 as part of the purchase of goods worth around 5,520 US dollars, which were allegedly requested by a front company for the Pakistani national development complex.
The court documents claim that Aziz had contacted a company based in Minnesota to secure the purchase that was to be delivered to his address in Surrey.
However, without known from Aziz, an undercover agent took over the correspondence over the order, which Aziz announced that the goods at the border “due to a state grip, was probably confiscated in customs” and found that a possible reason “smuggling and export against the law” was.
The agent asked Aziz what the intended use of the technology was and was allegedly announced that they have a commercial application.
“You have now canceled the order to this delay,” Aziz supposedly wrote.
“Please keep the items with you as soon as you have been published. We may find another customer.”
The punishment for the indictment is 20 years in prison.
