Globe & Mail:

A Canadian was sentenced Monday to three years in a U.S. prison for shipping banned electrical equipment to his native Iran – including some packages he put together from his jail cell.

Starting in 2009 and continuing until late last year, 45-year-old Ali Reza Parsa traded in “cryogenic accelerometers” bought from U.S. suppliers before he moved them through a Canadian front company. The end goal was to get the devices to Iran, where they have “both commercial and military uses, including in applications related to ballistic missile propellants,” prosecutors said in a statement Monday.

Prosecutors said Mr. Parsa, who pleaded guilty to sanction-busting in January, was so determined to get the goods overseas that he continued to do business while locked up awaiting trial in New York’s Metropolitan Detention Center.

The U.S. government alleged that, as an inmate, he continued to order parts from German and Brazilian suppliers, and have them sent to his Canadian front company for shipment to Iran. During this time, he directed “a relative to delete e-mail evidence of his ongoing business transactions while in jail, emphasizing the need for secrecy in their dealings,” prosecutors said...

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