American admits sending sensitive military blueprints to India

"By recklessly providing sub-standard parts for sophisticated weapons systems and sharing sensitive information with a foreign state, Luba not only jeopardised the lives of men and women on the front lines of our national defence, he put all Americans at risk, all in the name of making a buck," Attorney Paul J Fishman said.



The indictment alleges that Luba, owner of OneSource USA, used the password-protected website of a New Jersey church to transmit the blueprints for hundreds of defence hardware items to a conspirator in India, without the church's knowledge.

Luba is also owner and general manager of Allied Components.

But the indictment does not reveal the end destination of the military blueprints of hundreds of sensitive items like technical drawings for NSSN Class Submarines, torpedo tubes, open breech doors, and gagging collar A. It also does not give details of where in India the faulty parts for the fighter jets were manufactured.

In court papers, the Indian source is identified as RP.

"Luba would e-mail this contact -- identified in court papers only as 'RP' -- technical data for spare parts needed by the DoD so that RP and Luba could decide how much they would charge, and Luba could decide whether he could bid on the DoD contracts. The technical blueprints that Luba e-mailed to RP in India included technical data protected under export control laws," the Department of Justice said.

"These e-mails included a technical drawing for a hardware item known as the "Torpedo Tube, Open Breech Door, Gagging Collar A" for installation in a nuclear-powered military submarine," it said.