Jonathan Yet Wing Soong, 35, of Castro Valley, admitted violating export control laws between 2016 and 2020 as part of a scheme to funnel sensitive aeronautics software to a Beijing university on a federal list of restricted entities.
Soong, who pleaded guilty to violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, was a program administrator with the Universities Space Research Association, a nonprofit research corporation that had a contract with NASA to license and distribute aeronautics-related Army flight control software for a fee.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California,"Soong admitted that he willingly exported and facilitated the sale and transfer of restricted software to Beihang University knowing that the university was on the Department of Commerce's Entity List.
The software in this case could be used to analyze and design aircraft control systems, according to prosecutors. Soong is scheduled for sentencing April 28 and faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine.© 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Bay City News Service contributed to this report.Please enter email address to continue
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