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2011

Heilprin, John, “3 Swiss to avoid trial in nuclear case,AP, 12/13/2011 http://www.wboc.com/story/16027674/report-3-swiss-to-avoid-trial-in-nuclear-case?clienttype=printable last checked 12/14/2011.

  1. ”A spokeswoman for the federal prosecutors, Walburga Bur, has previously told AP that a shortened procedure was possible under which the Swiss engineers admit the basic charges against them but face no more than five years imprisonment. Normally, anyone who breaks Swiss laws banning the export of nuclear material faces up to 10 years imprisonment.”
  2. ”Urs Tinner, who like his brother and father has been released on bail pending charges, claimed in an 2009 interview with Swiss TV station SF1 that he had worked with U.S. intelligence. He said he had tipped off the CIA about a delivery of centrifuge parts meant for Libya’s nuclear weapons program.”
  3. ”The shipment was seized at the Italian port of Taranto in 2003, which forced Libya to admit and eventually renounce its efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, and helped expose Khan’s smuggling ring.”

Export Control, Law Enforcement, Switzerland, Italy, Libya