ITT fined $100m for shipping night vision goggles to China

by angryindian | March 27, 2007 at 06:26 pm
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ITT, that American company that helped finance the Third Reich is now helping China military stocks by selling them American war tecnology.

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From The Register:

ITT illegally exported military night vision goggles to China. For
good measure, it supplied some classified technical data about a laser
counter measure known as a "light interference filter". Now it is
paying the price for its skulduggery: a whopping $100m fine.

The US defense contractor also sold the goggles to Singapore and the
UK, both allies of America the last time we checked. But, here's the
rub: the company didn't fill in the necessary paperwork and in some
cases it omitted material facts from its Arms Exports Required Reports.
According to the US Department of Justice, ITT knew that it was
violating its export licenses but failed to take action until just
before it was found out by the US Department of State.

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