Chinese national pleads guilty to attempting to export maritime equipment

Chinese national Ge Songtao has pleaded guilty to conspiring to submit false export information through the government’s Automatic Export System, and fraudulently attempting to export to China 7 maritime raiding craft and 8 military-model engines in violation of US export controls. According to the plea agreement, Mr Songtao was the chairman of Shanghai Breeze Technology Co. Ltd., which is headquartered …