The Region - News from Feb. 22, 1987

A West German businessman described as one of the world’s top “techno bandits” who exported millions of dollars in state-of-the-art U.S. technology to the Soviet Union has been convicted of 15 counts of wire fraud in Los Angeles federal court. Werner Bruchhausen, 47, was found guilty by U.S. District Judge Alicemarie H. Stotler, who heard the four-week trial without a jury. The government estimates that between 1977 and 1980, Bruchhausen sold more than $6 million worth of electronic systems and components, as well as military surveillance and communication systems, to the Soviet Bloc.