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Monday July 23 8:43 AM ET
U.S. Nuclear Fugitive Arrested in Spain
MADRID (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen convicted of selling nuclear arms parts
to Israel has been arrested in Spain after 16 years on the run, police said
on Monday.
Richard Kelly Smith, 71, escaped before being sentenced in the United
States on 15 counts of exporting nuclear arms technology and 15 counts of
falsification of documents.
He was picked up two weeks ago in Malaga on Spain's southern Costa del Sol,
where he had been living since 1985, police said.
Spain's High Court will now consider whether to extradite him, they added.
``In 1985 Los Angeles authorities filed an international warrant for
(Smith's) arrest and extradition ... so we are complying with that
request,'' a spokesman for the national police in Malaga said. ``The case
has been transferred to the High Court.''
Smith had previously been chairman of a Los Angeles-based company that
developed microchips called ``Kryptons,'' which are involved in the firing
mechanism of nuclear weapons, police said.
Between 1980 and 1982 he falsified documents so that his company could sell
the Kryptons to an Israeli company for an undisclosed sum.
The U.S. embassy in Madrid declined to comment.
Spain's Justice Ministry as recently as 1992 received a ''verbal petition''
from Washington for Smith's arrest and extradition, a Justice Ministry
spokesmen said.
The spokesman added that since Smith's arrest, Washington has made no
formal extradition request.
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