Acting United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks; John J. McKenna, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Export Enforcement, Boston Field Office; Bruce M. Foucart, Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Boston Field Division; Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Boston Field Division; and Edward Bradley, Special Agent in Charge of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, Northeast Field Office announced that ZHEN ZHOU WU a/k/a ALEX WU, YUFENG WEI a/k/a ANNIE WEI, BO LI a/k/a ERIC LEE, CHITRON ELECTRONICS, INC. (“CHITRON-US”), and SHENZHEN CHITRON ELECTRONICS COMPANY LIMITED (“CHITRON-SHENZHEN”) were charged in a thirty-eight count indictment with conspiring to violate U.S. export laws (including the Arms Export Control Act and Export Administration Regulations), illegally exporting defense articles and Commerce controlled electronics to China, money laundering, and causing false Shipper’s Export Declarations to be filed with the U.S. Department of Commerce.

ZHEN ZHOU WU a/k/a ALEX WU, YUFENG WEI a/k/a ANNIE WEI, CHITRON-US and CHITRON-SHENZHEN are also charged with illegally exporting electronics components to the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, an