CONTACTS:
(WASHINGTON) U.S. District Court Judge Raymond Dearie from the Eastern
District of New York has imposed a $10,000 fine and a $400 special assessment on Flushing,
New York, computer exporter Lansing Technologies Corporation for violations of the Export
Administration Regulations, Frank Deliberti, Commerce acting assistant secretary for Export
Enforcement announced.
The action follows the company's June 1997 guilty plea to charges of exporting a computer
vector processor and a data acquisition controller system to the People's Republic of China in
1992 without obtaining the required export licenses from the Department of Commerce. The
data acquisition control system was exported by the company after its export license application
was denied by the Department. The Department's Office of Export Enforcement New York field
office investigated the case.
The Department of Commerce controls and licenses the export and re-export of dual-use
commodities and technical data. Commerce's Bureau of Export Administration maintains and
enforces these controls for reasons of national security, foreign policy, short supply and
nonproliferation.