Article: Tennessee Technology Company Pleads Guilty to Arms Export Control Act Violations

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Atmospheric Glow Technologies Inc. (AGT), a privately-held plasma technology company located in Knoxville, Tenn., pleaded guilty today to ten counts of a federal indictment charging AGT with unlawfully exporting in 2005 and 2006 ten different "defense articles" to a citizen of the People's Republic of China in violation of the Arms Export Control Act. This law prohibits the export of defense- related materials, including technical data, to a foreign national or a foreign nation without the required U.S. government license.

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