A man who has been arrested after allegedly buying a restricted missile part from the United States worked on aircraft servicing Air New Zealand's domestic services.
Fiji Sun has reported that Fijian citizen William Gulshan Ali was arrested after allegedly breaching the United States' Arms Export Control Act.
The newspaper
reported that Mr Ali ran a business that bought and sold aircraft parts, and was asked by a Chinese client to buy specific parts from the US for US$15,000 ($21,883).
He travelled to the US to buy the parts, and planned to travel with the parts to Hong Kong, but was arrested.
He has reportedly been detained in the US since April 11, with a court date due to be set soon.
