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WASHINGTON, DC – 08/14/07 – A California man has been charged with illegally exporting restricted sensitive technology to a business in India.

Samuel Shangteh Peng of Yorba Linda, California was recently named in a criminal information filed in the US District Court in Santa Ana, California alleging five counts of unlawful exports of restricted items to a prohibited entity.

Peng has agreed to plead guilty to the charges, each of which carries a statutory maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.

"The defendant circumvented our export laws and put sophisticated equipment in the hands of a foreign company that was listed as an end-user of concern for proliferation reasons," said Assistant US Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein.

Peng was an international sales manager and was responsible for all exports at Endevco Corporation, an Orange County, California company that manufactures electronic sensors, vibration testing equipment, and other technology with both civilian and military applications.

The information alleges that Peng illegally exported a variety of sensitive items in 1999 and 2000 from the US to the Engine Division of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in Bangalore, India.

In 1998, the US Department of Commerce designated this facility in India as an end-user of concern for proliferation reasons.

As such, it was deemed unlawful for anyone in the US to export certain goods or technology of US-origin to HAL without authorization and an export license from the Department of Commerce.

The “certain goods” specified in the indictment includeexport vibration amplifiers, cable assemblies, and vibration processor units.

The Indian facility was removed from the prohibited entity list in 2001.

During 1999 and 2000, Peng allegedly exported vibration amplifiers, cable assemblies and vibration processor units, which can be used in military and civilian aircraft to extract vibration information from engines and to simulate output for calibrating, servicing, and testing that equipment.

Peng will be summoned to appear for an arraignment in US District Court in Santa Ana, California next week.

This case is being investigated by the US Department of Commerce, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and US Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and prosecuted by the Santa Ana Branch Office of the US Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.

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