Seller of US defense secrets goes to jail
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January 26, 2011, Wednesday
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A FORMER Northrop Grumman Corp engineer has been sentenced to 32 years in prison in the United States for providing secret defense information to foreign countries, exporting technical military data and other crimes.
Chief US District Judge Susan Oki Mollway said yesterday that Noshir Gowadia, 66, broke his oath of loyalty to this country. "He was found guilty of marketing valuable technology to foreign countries for personal gain."
Gowadia, who was born in India, was convicted in August on 14 counts, including communicating national defense information to aid a foreign nation and violating the arms export control act.
Prosecutors said Gowadia helped China design a stealth cruise missile to get money to pay the US$15,000-a-month mortgage on his luxurious multimillion dollar home overlooking the ocean on Maui in Hawaii. They say he pocketed at least US$110,000 by selling military secrets.
The defense argued Gowadia only provided unclassified information to China and was innocent.
His son, Ashton Gowadia, said the jury wasn't able to see documents that would absolve his father of the crimes because they were deemed classified. He said his father's defense team would present these during an appeal.
A federal jury in Honolulu found Gowadia helped China design a cruise missile exhaust nozzle that would give off less heat, allowing the missile to evade infrared radar detection and US heat-seeking missiles.
The jury, also found Gowadia guilty of attempting to sell classified stealth technology to the Swiss government and businesses in Israel and Germany.
Chief US District Judge Susan Oki Mollway said yesterday that Noshir Gowadia, 66, broke his oath of loyalty to this country. "He was found guilty of marketing valuable technology to foreign countries for personal gain."
Gowadia, who was born in India, was convicted in August on 14 counts, including communicating national defense information to aid a foreign nation and violating the arms export control act.
Prosecutors said Gowadia helped China design a stealth cruise missile to get money to pay the US$15,000-a-month mortgage on his luxurious multimillion dollar home overlooking the ocean on Maui in Hawaii. They say he pocketed at least US$110,000 by selling military secrets.
The defense argued Gowadia only provided unclassified information to China and was innocent.
His son, Ashton Gowadia, said the jury wasn't able to see documents that would absolve his father of the crimes because they were deemed classified. He said his father's defense team would present these during an appeal.
A federal jury in Honolulu found Gowadia helped China design a cruise missile exhaust nozzle that would give off less heat, allowing the missile to evade infrared radar detection and US heat-seeking missiles.
The jury, also found Gowadia guilty of attempting to sell classified stealth technology to the Swiss government and businesses in Israel and Germany.
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