Iranian citizen extradited to US over alleged military tech export
An Iranian citizen, Reza Dindar, has been extradited to Seattle to face charges that he shipped military sonar equipment from the United States to Iran in violation of sanctions, the Associated Press reported.
The US Justice Department said the 44-year-old was indicted in 2014 on charges including conspiracy, smuggling and money laundering.
Dindar was arrested in Panama last July at the request of US authorities and transferred to Seattle last week.
It remains unclear where he had been in the intervening years or why he was not arrested sooner. His lawyer, Farhad Alavi, declined to comment.