HOUSTON — Federal prosecutors in Houston on Monday announced initial results of Operation Gatekeeper .

The operation targets illegal efforts to export advanced U.S. technology, particularly high-end computer chips, to foreign nations.

U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei provided insight on the coordinated federal initiative led by the Southern District of Texas, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security, the Department of Justice’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI.

"The Southern District of Texas will find each and every person our business working to legally export is critical technology to our strategic competitors. We will be relentless in finding them. That is what Operation Gatekeeper is for. The stake

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