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Nuke Scam for Pakistan—Again

Yet Another Pakistani Charged With Slipping U.S. Nuclear Technology to Islamabad

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Chiara Vercellone
Sep 22, 2020
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Obaidullah Syed, owner of a Pakistani technology company living in Illinois, was indicted on Monday for illegally exporting American computer equipment to a Pakistani government-funded nuclear research company, according to the Department of Justice.

It’s just the latest incident in a decades-old covert effort by Pakistan to acquire sensitive nuclear-rel…

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