Police arrested three individuals, including the head of a trading company, on Tuesday, on suspicion that they unlawfully exported to a Chinese firm a carbon fiber material that can be diverted to military use.
The China-based importer is linked to Chinese and other foreign military enterprises, the police said, raising the possibility that the material could have wound up in an end-user country such as Iran.
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