Engineer Sentenced For Conspiring To Export Semiconductor Chips To China

Canyon News
HOLLYWOOD HILLS- On Thursday, July 22, the Department of Justice announced that a Hollywood Hills engineer was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for scheming to illegally obtain integrated circuits with military applications that were exported to China without the required filing.
Yi-Chi Shih, 66, was also ordered to pay $362,698 in restitution to the IRS and was fined $300,000 by United States District Judge John A. Kronstadt. Shih was convicted of one count of conspiracy to violate the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). Shih also was convicted of one count of making false statements to an FBI agent, one count of conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information, three counts of subscribing to a false tax return, four counts of mail fraud, and four counts of making false statements to the IRS about his foreign assets.

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