April 15, 2016
German prosecutors say they’ve indicted three men for delivering valves to Iran for a company that was once responsible for building the country’s Arak heavy-water reactor.
Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that the three German citizens — identified only as Bernd L, Rene L. and Ralf C. in line with German privacy laws — were charged with violating export laws and attempting to violate weapons-control laws.
They said the men delivered 51 valves to Iran in two batches, in 2010 and 2011, part of a larger order worth some 1 million euros ($1.14 million). Two of them are accused of giving a false customer name to get around export controls.
Prosecutors say any deliveries to the actual customer, which wasn’t named, were banned at the time under EU sanctions.