A Manhattan grand jury indicted a Chinese executive and his company on charges of covertly using U.S. banks to finance the sale of tons of restricted materials to Iran in violation of U.N. sanctions. David Albright [2]of the Ploughshares-funded Institute for Science and International Security [3]assisted in the prosecution, and said it is impossible to say how Iran used the raw materials it acquired. He added, "China is a huge hole in the system. It needs help to implement its own controls."
A senior German industrialist agreed [4]in a speech to the Carnegie International Nonproliferation Conference [5]in Washington, citing cases in which Iran has used Chinese companies as fronts to buy equipment.
Links
[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/545
[2] http://ploughshares.org/expert/102
[3] http://www.isis-online.org/
[4] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/08/iran-nuclear-programme-china
[5] http://www.carnegieendowment.org/npp/
[6] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/07/AR2009040704010.html