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Iranian wanted by US flies from France
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
07/05/2010 21:03 PARIS — An Iranian detained in France on accusations he evaded export controls to purchase technology over the Internet to sell to Iran's military has left the country.
Diane Francois, a lawyer for Majid Kakavand, says the 37-year-old engineer left France for Iran on Friday.
He was taken into custody in March 2009 as he arrived in Paris for a vacation, was imprisoned for six months and then released on condition he stay in the French capital.
The United States had been seeking Kakavand's extradition, but a French court rejected the request earlier this week. The US claims he went online to purchase sensitive US electronics and had them shipped to Malaysia, then on
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