Chinese National Sentenced to Prison for Illegal Firearms, Tech Exports to North Korea
Chinese national Shenghua Wen was sentenced this week to eight years in prison after pleading guilty in June to illegally exporting firearms, ammunition and "other military items" to North Korea by hiding them inside shipping containers leaving a California port…
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(see 2506100049). DOJ said Wen, who was residing illegally in Ontario, California, committed the crime "at the direction of North Korean government officials," who sent him about $2 million for the illegal exports.