Military Aircraft Components to China and Iran 

On August 28, 2008, Desmond Dinesh Frank, a citizen and resident of Malaysia, was sentenced to 23 months in prison after pleading guilty on May 16, 2008, to several felonies in the District of Massachusetts in connection with a plot to illegally export military items to China and Iran. A six-count indictment returned on November 15, 2007 charged Frank, the operator of Asian Sky Support, Sdn., Bhd., in Malaysia, with conspiring to illegally export items to Iran, conspiring to illegally export C-130 military aircraft training equipment to China, illegally exporting defense articles, smuggling, and two counts of money laundering. Frank was arrested in Hawaii on October 8, 2007 by ICE agents. Frank conspired with others to illegally export and cause the re-export of goods, technology and services to Iran without first obtaining the required authorization from the Treasury Department. He also conspired with others to illegally export ten indicators, servo driven tachometers — which are military training components used in C-130 military flight simulators — from the United States to Malaysia and ultimately, to Hong Kong, China, without the required license from the State Department. This investigation was conducted by ICE, BIS, and DCIS.