Metals Firm Owner Accused of Illegally Sending Iran Metallic Powder

March 1, 2016

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Associated Press

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  • Turkey
  • United States

Erdal Kuyumcu, the head of a New York-based metallurgical company, has been arrested on charges of illegally exporting a specialized powder to Iran, the Justice Department announced on March 1.  Kuyumcu, the CEO of Global Metallurgy LLC, was accused of exporting more than a thousand pounds of cobalt-nickel metallic powder to Iran via Turkey without an export license.  The metallic powder has aerospace, missile production, and nuclear applications.