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Article: International Arms Dealer Arrested for Conspiracy to Supply U.S. Fighter Jet Engines to Iran
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- September 2, 2009
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2007, or TDD +1-
202-514-1888
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Jacques Monsieur,
a Belgian national and resident of France suspected of international
arms dealing for decades, has been arrested on charges alleging that
he conspired to illegally export F-5 fighter jet engines and parts
from the United States to Iran. Monsieur is scheduled to have his
arraignment today in federal court in Mobile, Alabama.
The arrest and charges were announced by Deputy Attorney General
David Ogden; Eugene A. Seidel, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern
District of Alabama; John Morton, Department of Homeland Security, ...