The Epoch Times A businessman in southern California was sentenced on March 30 to one year and one day in prison for illegally brokering sales of embargoed arms from China to the United States, and for falsifying the correlating tax returns.
Xie Tuqiang pleaded guilty to violating the Arms Export Control Act and filing a false tax return in 2019, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Under the scheme, Xie used his California-based company, Bio-Medical Optics LLC, to broker the shipment of defense equipment listed on the U.S. Munitions List and U.S. Munitions Import Lists…
