The Region : 3 Indicted in Hi-Tech Case
A federal grand jury in San Diego has indicted three businessmen for allegedly being part of a scheme to smuggle American high technology to countries throughout the world, including the Soviet-bloc nation of Bulgaria. Named in the indictment Friday are Keisuke Yamada, a Mexican citizen and owner of Electro Design Systems in National City, 10 miles south of San Diego; Ruediger Martin Graaf, a dual citizen of Germany and Canada and primary owner of Migra International, an electronics brokerage firm in Toronto; and Bruno Barbarits, an Austrian citizen living in Switzerland and co-owner of the Swiss companies of Cosmotrans A. G. and I-Cowatec Ltd. Warrants have been issued for the three and bonds set at $5 million each, U.S. Atty. Peter Nunez said.
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