A Chinese woman has been jailed in the United States after pleading guilty to smuggling sensitive space and military communications technology back to China, the US Justice Department says.
Si Chen, 33, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison on Monday, after admitting in July that she had conspired to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), a law that bars exporting certain goods to other nations.
“This defendant knowingly participated in a plot to secretly send items with military applications to China,” US Attorney Nick Hanna said in a statement.
“The smuggled items could be used in a number of damaging ways, including in equipment that could jam our satellite communications. We will aggressively target all persons who provide foreign agents with technology in violation of US law,” he added.
Chen, who used to live in on the suburbs of Los Angeles, California, was taken into custody in May last…