AHN Staff
Norfolk, VA (AHN) - A naturalized Chinese physicist from Kiln Creek, Virginia pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of passing secret U.S. space technology data to China for the building of its rockets.
Quan-Sheng Shu, 68, admitted before a U.S. District Court in Norfolk that he sent a design of liquid hydrogen tanks to Chinese official in December 2003 in violation of the Arms Export Control Act.
He also admitted bribing officials in Beijing $189,300 to secure for an unnamed French firm a $4 million contract to build a liquid hydrogen converter in January 2007.
Shu's high-tech firm AMAC International based in Newport News acts as consultant of the French company and received $387,000 in commission for helping secure the contract.
In exchange for his guilty plea, Shu's wife will not be charged for counseling him on the bribery of Chinese officials.
Shu's sentencing was set to April next year as he provides the FBI with more information about other people involved in the espionage case.
Shu arrived in the U.S. in 1983 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1998. The technology he passed to China was instrumental in Beijing's moon exploration program.
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