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<\/a>An Iranian-American engineer accused of attempting to ship stolen documentation on a high-tech military plane to Iran has been indicted, US authorities say.<\/p>\nA grand jury in the US state of Connecticut charged Mozaffar Khazaee, 59, with two counts of transporting stolen goods.<\/p>\n
He was arrested on 9 January for trying to smuggle thousands of pages of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter documents.<\/p>\n
If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n
Mr Khazaee is accused of transporting, transmitting and transferring in interstate commerce goods obtained by theft, conversion or fraud, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
He is said to have stolen the sensitive materials from defence contracting companies where he was employed, Connecticut US Attorney Deirdre Daly told US media on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The engineer is an ex-employee of military contractor Pratt & Whitney and in that capacity was responsible for carrying out strength tests on engine parts, US media have reported.<\/p>\n
He was made redundant from a defence contractor in August, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
‘Household goods’
\nThe investigation began in November, when customs officials and homeland security agents intercepted a shipment Mr Khazaee sent from Connecticut to a freighter in Long Beach, California, bound for Hamadan, Iran, according to court records.<\/p>\n
The shipment was marked as containing household goods, but officials instead found boxes of documents containing technical manuals and proprietary material related to the F-35 programme.<\/p>\n
Mr Khazaee was arrested on 9 January at the airport in Newark, New Jersey, on his way to Iran.<\/p>\n
The former Connecticut resident is reportedly being detained in New Jersey pending his arraignment.<\/p>\n
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter – the most expensive defence programme in history – is estimated to have cost approximately $400bn (\u00a3242bn)<\/p>\n
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