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Boffin flogged rocket technology to China

It really was rocket science, court told
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 11:01

A TOP BOFFIN who heads a hi-tech US company has been charged with illegally selling rocket technology to China and offering bribes to Chinese officials.

Shu Quan-Sheng, 68, made an initial appearance in US District Court in Norfolk and is being held in jail pending a bail application.

Shu is the president of AMAC International and faces two counts of violating the federal Arms Control Act and one count of bribery. He could face 25 years porridge if the court chucks the book at him.

The prosecution said that Shu sold technology to China for development of hydrogen-propelled rockets. Currently the Chinese government is developing a space launch facility in the southern island province of Hainan. This will use liquid-propelled launch vehicles designed to send space stations and satellites into orbit.

Shu also bribed Chinese officials to award a $4 million hydrogen liquefier contract to a French company acting as an AMAC intermediary, the prosecutors claim.

Shu is a US citizen who was born in Shanghai, and his company also has offices in Beijing. µ

L'Inq
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Illegal Spiegel

" illegally selling rocket technology to China .."

Is it illegal to sell rocket technology or illegal to sell it to China or was it just sold illegally .. or all three? 

Is it secret? 

How weird whenever it was probably invented by the Chinese?

posted by : amanfromMars, 25 September 2008 Complain about this comment
So the idiot got caught.

I really think its stupid how politicians use their power to control markets and who gets what now. 

The laws on a lot of this garbage is out of control. Are they going to crack down on me for speaking out against them?

Possibly... Welcome Americans to our new invisible slavery.

posted by : viscountalpha, 28 September 2008 Complain about this comment
legal one day, illegal the next

all this guy did was what's been considered normal business practices for over 10 years-- since the days of the Clinton-China connections-- what's the mystery here thus far, is why it took this long a time to determine illegality???

posted by : spepper, 28 September 2008 Complain about this comment
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