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Company Fined for Attempting to Smuggle Machine to Iran

WEST BRUNSWICK TOWNSHIP — A manufacturing company in Schuylkill County and its CEO have been sentenced for trying to smuggle an $800,000 machine to Iran. ...

WEST BRUNSWICK TOWNSHIP -- A manufacturing company in Schuylkill County and its CEO have been sentenced for trying to smuggle an $800,000 machine to Iran.

Helmut Oertmann received one year probation and Hetran Inc. near Orwigsburg was fined $337,500.

Both pleaded guilty in June to charges they were attempting to conceal the destination of the machine, which shapes steel bars used in the manufacture of automobile and aircraft parts.

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