Singapore director jailed 46 months for exporting US parts to Iran

LAURA Wang-Woolford, an American citizen and former director of Monarch Aviation Pte Ltd of Singapore, has been sentenced by a New York federal court to 46 months in jail and fined US$500,000 for exporting restricted US aircraft parts to Iran.

Wang-Woolford and her British husband, who is still at large, exported the parts from the US to Monarch offices in Singapore and Malaysia and then sent them on to Tehran importers US licences.

The aircraft parts illegally exported to Iran included aircraft shields, shears, "o" rings and switch assemblies, reported American Shipper. They arranged for the illegal export of US military aircraft components, designed for use in Chinook helicopters.

She was a director of Monarch Aviation, a company that imported and exported military and commercial aircraft components for more than 20 years. She was arrested on December 23, 2007 at San Francisco airport after arriving from Hong Kong and has been in jail since. She and her husband Brian Woolford, then Monarch's chairman and managing director, were first charged in 2003.

Source: www.schednet.com