Avnet Asia Admits to Criminal Liability for the Conduct of Former Employees, and Agrees to Pay More Than $3.2 Million An indictment was unsealed this week charging Cheng Bo, also known as Joe Cheng, a 45-year-old national of the People’s Republic of China, with participating in a criminal conspiracy from 2012-2015 to violate U.S. export laws by shipping U.S. power amplifiers to China. Cheng’s former employer, Avnet Asia Pte. Ltd., a Singapore company and global distributor of electronic components and related software, agreed to pay a financial penalty to the United States of $1,508,000 to settle criminal liability for the conduct of its former employees, including Cheng. As part of a non-prosecution agreement, Avnet Asia admitted responsibility for Cheng’s unlawful conspiracy to ship export-controlled U.S. goods with potential military applications to China, and also for the criminal conduct of another former employee who, from 2007-2009, illegally caused
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The FBI s Minneapolis Field Office assisted in an investigation that led to charging a 45-year-old man with participating in a criminal conspiracy that involved violating United States export laws by shipping U.S. power amplifiers to China.
According to officials, Cheng Bo, also known as Joe Cheng, was charged after operating as a sales representative and submitting paperwork to purchase export-controlled U.S. goods, including power amplifiers. Cheng then made false statements to the U.S. manufacturer of the power amplifiers that the amplifiers would be used in Hong Kong when Cheng knew they would be shipped illegally from Hong Kong to China.
Chinese national charged with conspiring to export US power technology ANI | Updated: Jan 30, 2021 04:29 IST
Washington DC [US], January 30 (ANI): A Chinese national faces federal charges that he plotted over a three year period to evade US laws and export power amplifier technology to China, the US Department of Justice said on Friday. An indictment was unsealed this week charging Cheng Bo, also known as Joe Cheng, a 45-year-old national of the People s Republic of China, with participating in a criminal conspiracy from 2012-2015 to violate US export laws by shipping US power amplifiers to China, the Justice Department release said.
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