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A federal grand jury in Madison returned a two-count indictment against Doli Syarief Pulungan, who has been staying in Cashton, Wis., a small town near La Crosse.
Federal prosecutors said Pulungan attempted to conspire with others to export scopes used on rifles such as the M-16 and AR-15. The scopes are considered sensitive military equipment and require a license or written approval from the federal government to be exported.
A second count in the indictment accuses Pulungan, age unknown, of lying to the FBI about whether he had been living in the U.S. He told investigators he had only recently traveled here.
Pulungan pleaded not guilty to the charges Thursday in U.S. District Court in Madison. He was ordered detained pending trial, which is scheduled for late January.
The indictment accuses Pulungan of sending an e-mail in July instructing an unnamed person living in Wisconsin to order 100 Leupold Mark 4 CQ/T Riflescopes.
He allegedly told the person to have the scopes shipped to his home for later shipment overseas and not to tell the company the scopes were going to end up in Indonesia, the indictment adds.
In September, Pulungan asked another person in Wisconsin to buy 100 more of the same scopes. He asked the person to ship the equipment to Saudi Arabia and then on to Indonesia, the indictment said.
Pulungan faces up to 15 years in federal prison.
