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Taiwanese man extradited to U.S. from Estonia

Posted October 04, 2013 4:53 pm

Associated Press

A Taiwanese man accused of seeking to bypass bans on supplying weapons machinery to North Korea has pleaded not guilty after being extradited from Estonia.

Hsien Tai Tsai was arraigned Friday in Chicago federal court. He leaned forward to hear a Chinese translator interpret the 10-minute proceeding.

Prosecutors accuse the 67-year-old of conspiring to thwart laws on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. His son was arrested in the Chicago area in May on similar charges.

The father was arrested while visiting Estonia. The Baltic Sea-coast nation worked with the U.S. to capture him, then jailed him for five months. Estonia extradited Tsai on Thursday.

Prosecutors deem Tsai a flight risk, and the judge ordered he be held pending a detention hearing.

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