Man Jailed for High Tech Sales
A New Hampshire man has been sentenced to a year in prison on charges of illegally exporting high technology equipment to a European firm that relayed the equipment to Soviet Bloc countries.
R. Paul Boucher, 53, of Nashua, N.H., was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge A. David Mazzone after pleading guilty April 11 to nine counts of violation of high technology transfer laws.
Boucher’s firm, Young Sales and Service Co. of Nashua, was fined $25,000. The penalties were stayed until Sept. 4.
U.S. Atty. William Weld said Boucher will serve six months of the prison term, after which he will be placed on probation for two years.
Weld said Boucher, in addition to a conspiracy charge, admitted to six instances of exporting computer equipment to West Germany and Switzerland, via Canada. He also admitted to two counts of filing false export declarations with the U.S. Customs Service.
Boucher’s firm filled orders for computer equipment from a Swiss company, Elmont AG, which then shipped the goods to the Soviet Union, according to a summary submitted to the court by the government.
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