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Article: TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY COMPANY PLEADS GUILTY TO ARMS EXPORT CONTROL ACT VIOLATIONS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 20, 2008
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The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following press release:
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.
The illegal exports by AGT charged in the indictment related to technical data and information that was ...