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ISLAMABAD: The arrest of
a New Jersey based Indian Engineer, Sitaraman Ravi Mahedevan
on charges of illegally exporting blueprints for valves being
used in construction of a North Korean Nuclear Plant has
created a stir in the nuclear proliferation watchdog agencies
of America.
Details
According to official
sources, the federal prosecutors in America have lodged
criminal complaint that Sitaraman mailed the blueprints of the
highly sensitive component to North Korea in the middle of
October.
The "solenoid operated
valves" whose blueprints were clandestinely mailed are used to
transfer gages, liquid and hot water in crucial operations of
the nuclear plants.
The recipient of the
sensitive information was identified as the Korean Peninsula
Energy Development Organization (KEDO), a premier North Korean
Agency involved in developing nuclear technology.
Mahedevan was arrested from
his home in Marlton, New Jersey and was later produced in U.S.
District Court in Lower Manhattan in New York.
According to observers the
repeated incidents of clandestine smuggling of sensitive
material and technology to North Korea has raised strong
possibility of Indian Government's linkages with the country's
Nuclear Enrichment Program.
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