【美国《核子周刊》2004年9月2日刊报道】德国联邦检察长办公室2004年8月31日宣布,德国联邦检察官正在就利比亚2001年试图获取离心浓缩所需管材一事对两名德国公民进行调查。其中一人曾因涉嫌在20世纪80年代向巴基斯坦出口浓缩技术而受到过严密调查,但最终被宣布无不正当行为。 US Nuclear Weekly reported on September 2, 2004 The Federal Office of the Prosecutor of Germany announced on August 31, 2004 that the German federal prosecutor is in the process of trying two Libyan citizens to try to obtain the pipe needed for centrifugal concentration in 2001 survey. One of them, who had been closely investigated for allegedly exporting concentrated technology to Pakistan in the 1980s, was eventually declared guilty of misconduct.