Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 12

ICE Senior Agent Francischelli Lauded for Arms Investigation

The International Organization of Asian Crime Investigators and Specialists has selected ICE Senior Special Agent Maryann Francischelli as the recipient of its 2005 Outstanding Advocate Award of Law Enforcement in Asian Organized Crime.

Francischelli is a senior special agent with the ICE Office in New Haven, Conn. She received her award May 26.

Franciscelli was given the award for her outstanding work as the ICE case agent in an investigation targeting a network that illegally exported military engines for the Black Hawk helicopter from the United States to the People’s Republic of China. The investigation specifically targeted Kwonhwan Park (a.k.a. Howard Park), a citizen of South Korea, and others for violations of the Arms Export Control Act. Park pleaded guilty to federal charges and is awaiting sentencing.

For more than two years, Park was the subject of an investigation by ICE and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS). Park bought two Black Hawk engines and diverted them to China. He was attempting to buy four more engines when ICE agents began tracking his actions. Park was intercepted by ICE agents on April 1, 2004, at Dulles International Airport in Virginia attempting to depart the United States on a plane bound for Beijing, China. An inspection of Park’s luggage confirmed that he had a sophisticated night vision goggle system manufactured by a U.S. firm that is a military item controlled for export.

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