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Japan firm suspected of illicit China exports: police

by Staff Writers
 Tokyo (AFP) March 4, 2009
 Japanese police said Wednesday they had arrested employees of a machinery maker on suspicion of illegally exporting to China and South Korea tools that could be used to produce nuclear weapons.

One former and three current employees of Horkos Corp., based in the western province of Hiroshima, were arrested for alleged violation of the foreign trade law, a Hiroshima police spokesman said.

"They allegedly exported illegally to South Korea and China machine tools that can be converted for use to produce weapons of mass destruction," the official said.

Jiji Press news agency said police allege the four had exported precision machine tools to Chinese and South Korean companies in the automotive sector without getting permission from the trade minister.

Japan's foreign trade law bans exporting machine tools of extreme precision without government permission.

The exported tools could be used to make components for a uranium-enriching device, but the company made a false statement that they were of lower precision, Jiji Press said.

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