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.