The United States offers a $ 15 million reward for women, and 3 partners accused of smuggling drone technology to Iran

The US State Department has provided a reward of up to $ 15 million for a woman and three partners claiming to threaten US technology to Iran for nearly 20 years.

Leo Boxia, also known as Emily Liu, has worked with three partners to use the front companies in China to send electronic components to us to companies associated with the Iranian Islamic Guard Corps, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, He said in a press release. Fellows were identified as Lee Yongkin, also known as Emma Lee; Yong Yiu Wa, also known as Stephen Young; Zhong Yanlai, also known as Sydney Chung.

The Foreign Ministry said that electronic components can be used in the production of unmanned air vehicles or drones, ballistic missile systems and other “military uses”. Thousands of components, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have been sent He said in another post.

It is claimed that Liu and its partners have offended the representation of who will be sent electronic components, so they were exported to Chinese front companies under the belief that they are being sent to China. Instead, they were exported to companies associated with the IRAN Shiraz Electronics Industries, Rayan Roshd Afzar and its subsidiaries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

Federal charges were announced against the four, including the plot, in January 2024. The well -known sites for theo and its partners are Tehran, Iran; Shiraz, Iran; Bandar Abbas, Iran; Beijing, China, Cologne, Hong Kong.

Federal detention orders were issued to Leo and ChongAnd the Federal Office added them to the investigation to the “Most Required” list. The US State Department said that the program of its reward for justice provides a reward of up to 15 million dollars to obtain information that leads to its arrest.

IRGC uses front companies regularly to earn and transfer money, and buy technology during Clear penalties and trade controlsThe Foreign Ministry said. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the Ministry of Defense in the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces in Iran and Iran, which oversees the development and production of military weapons in the country, used American technology to manufacture weapons and weapons systems. Then these regimes are sold to governments and groups in local Iranian countries such as Russia and Sudan and Yemen.