The Associated Press
The federal prosecutor’s office said Thursday that 65-year-old German Heinz Ulrich K. was charged with breaking export laws and 52-year-old Iranian Mohsen A., 52, with incitement to break them.
It said the two men are suspected of having exported a vacuum sintering furnace worth euro850,000 ($1.1 million) to Iran in July 2007 although that type of equipment had been covered since April 2007 by an arms embargo against Iran.
Prosecutors already had charged Mohsen A. together with a third man, Dr. Behzad S., over the same deal earlier this year but now say the charges have been expanded.