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US Attn General Announces Charges Against 13 Chinese SPIES
US Attorney General Merrick Garland Holds News Conference on National
Garland Announces Charges Against 13 Chinese Spy Suspects
The attorney general rolled out three cases involving allegations of separate schemes to “unlawfully exert influence in the United States.”
BBC News 19 NOV 2022.
Attorney General Merrick Garland and top Justice Department officials hold a news conference on a national security issue on Oct. 24.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has charged 13 people who tried to "unlawfully exert influence in the United States" for the People's Republic of China, U.S. officials allege.
Attorney General Merrick Garland rolled out three different cases alleging separate schemes at a news conference Monday. One case charges seven Chinese nationals with trying to forcefully repatriate a Chinese national. Four others were charged with targeting people in the U.S. to act on China's behalf. And two other men were charged with interfering in a U.S. criminal prosecution of a global telecommunications company.
Garland alleges Chinese agents tried to 'undermine our judicial system'
The Justice Department did not name the company involved in the third case. The details of the complaint against the defendants, Guochun He and Zheng Wang, match up with a prosecution in the Eastern District of New York of Huawei, a Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer, which the U.S. previously charged with stealing trade secret and intellectual property information.
The complaint accused the pair of trying to recruit an unnamed informant whom they paid $61,000 in Bitcoin in exchange for what they believed was confidential information about the Justice Department’s investigation and prosecution of the company. Asked Monday whether Huawei had any connection to He or Wang, a Justice Department official declined to confirm the identity of the company in the complaint.
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