HONOLULU, Nov.09, 2006
Ashok Shah
NRI Noshir S Gowadia, an engineer who helped design
the propulsion system on the radar-evading B-2 stealth
bomber, was named in a superseding 18-count indictment,
according to Kenneth L Wainstein, assistant attorney
general for the US Justice Department's National Security
Division, and US Attorney Edward Kubo Jr.
Three of the new counts charge Gowadia with providing
classified national defense information to help China
or to injure the United States. The three charges
carry a prison sentence of up to life, with a possible
maximum sentence of death if certain statutory criteria
are met, the officials said.
Three of the new counts charge Gowadia with providing
classified national defense information to help China
or to injure the United States.
"As charged in the superseding indictment, the
defendant in this case attempted to profit from his
know-how and his knowledge of sensitive military technology,"Wainstein
said.
