CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–May 14, 2015. A Bolingbrook man was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison for violating U.S. export laws by attempting to ship a thermal imaging camera from his company in Schaumburg to a company in Pakistan without obtaining a license from the U.S. Commerce Department, federal law enforcement officials announced today. The defendant, Bilal Ahmed, 34, of Bolingbrook, Illinois, was also ordered to complete a term of two years of supervision after his release by U.S. District Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer. Ahmed was ordered to report to the Federal Bureau of Prisons on July 17, 2015. Ahmed pled guilty to one count of willfully violating export control regulations, specifically the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, between June 2009 and March 2014.
