![]() International arms inspectors and Western officials have long worried that blueprints for nuclear arms found on the Tinners' computers may have been sold to clients of the smuggling ring or copied and hidden for later sale. The Tinners are suspected of having worked for Khan, the Pakistani bomb pioneer who sold illegal materials to Libya, Iran and North Korea before Western nations disrupted his operations in 2003. The father was released from jail in 2006 pending legal action. All three are suspected of criminal export violations. The developments mark a new phase in Switzerland's long efforts to prosecute the family of Swiss engineers, including the Tinner patriarch, Friedrich. They added that his brother Marco remained in jail because of worries that he still had access to nuclear-weapons secrets. 22 after more than four years in investigative detention, Swiss officials said Monday. The Swiss authorities have released from jail a man suspected of smuggling atomic technology to Libya and Iran as part of the nuclear black market of Abdul Qadeer Khan, officials and family members said. ![]()
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