Crime & Safety
Glenview Man Gets Probation for False Bill of Lading
Gary Tsai admitted to sending machinery that could be used for weapons of mass destruction to Taiwan in plea agreement.
A Glenview man won’t serve any jail time for his role in a plot to supply machinery to North Korea for the possible manufacturing of weapons of mass destruction.
Yueh-Hsun Tsai, also known as Gary Tsai, has been sentenced to three years probation and fined $250 in a Chicago federal courtroom, the Journal & Topics reports. He plead guilty to one count of creating a false bill of lading - which was supposedly to ship a precision grinding machine that could be used in the production of weapons of mass destruction.
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As part of the agreement, Tsai admitted to having a Taiwanese company called Trans Merits Co., a well known proliferator of weapons of mass destruction, as the final destination in 2009.
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