Singapore man set to face export violation charges in U.S.

Lim Yong Nam of Singapore will be extradited from Indonesia to Washington, D.C. to face criminal charges of exporting RF modules used in IEDs, according to the U.S. Justice Department.    Lim Yong Nam, who also goes by the name Steven Lim and is a Singapore citizen, has been extradited from Indonesia to stand trial in the District of Columbia on charges that he took part in a conspiracy to illegally export thousands of radio frequency modules from the United States to Iran, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
   At least 16 of these illicit shipments were later discovered in unexploded improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Iraq. 
   Lim had been detained in Indonesia since October 2014 in connection with a U.S. request for extradition.  He was indicted on June 23, 2010, and faces one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, one count of smuggling, one count of illegal export of goods from the United States to Iran, one count of making false statements to the United States government and one count of making false statements to law enforcement, the Justice Department said.
   The U.S. indictment alleges that between June 2007 and February 2008 Lim and several others illicitly arranged for the shipment of 6,000 radio frequency modules from a Minnesota company to Iran. In May and December 2008, April 2009, and July 2010, coalition forces found at least 16 of these modules in unexploded IEDs recovered in Iraq, the Justice Department said.