Eight individuals charged with conspiring to act as illegal agents of the People’s Republic of China.
Five of the have been arrested on the charge a of illegally doing the biding of the Chinese government in the U.S.
Defendants conducted surveillance of and engaged in a campaign to harass, stark and coerce certain residents of the U.S. to return the PRC as part of global, concerted, and extralegal repatriation effort known as “Operation Fox Hunt”.
PRC’s Operation Fox Huat targets Chinese individuals living in foreign countries that PRC government alleges those committed crimes under PRC crimes and seeks to repatriate them to PRC face to charges.
Source: The U.S. Department of Justice #Oct28
https://www.justice.gov/opa/video/eight-individuals-charged-conspiring-act-illegal-agents-people-s-republic-china
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Five of the have been arrested on the charge a of illegally doing the biding of the Chinese government in the U.S.
Defendants conducted surveillance of and engaged in a campaign to harass, stark and coerce certain residents of the U.S. to return the PRC as part of global, concerted, and extralegal repatriation effort known as “Operation Fox Hunt”.
PRC’s Operation Fox Huat targets Chinese individuals living in foreign countries that PRC government alleges those committed crimes under PRC crimes and seeks to repatriate them to PRC face to charges.
Source: The U.S. Department of Justice #Oct28
https://www.justice.gov/opa/video/eight-individuals-charged-conspiring-act-illegal-agents-people-s-republic-china
#US #CCP #Chineseagent
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Former U.S. Military Pilot Admits Acting as Paid Agent of China and Lying on National Security Background Forms
// Shapour Moinian, 67, of San Diego, is a former U.S. Army helicopter pilot-turned-civilian-contractor. He pleaded guilty in federal court on June 23, 2022, admitting that he acted as an unregistered agent of China and accepted thousands of dollars from representatives of the Chinese government to provide aviation-related information from his defense-contractor employers.
He also pleaded guilty to making related false statements during national security background checks.//
Read more:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-us-military-pilot-admits-acting-paid-agent-china-and-lying-national-security
Source: US Justice #Jun23
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Former U.S. Military Pilot Admits Acting as Paid Agent of China and Lying on National Security Background Forms
// Shapour Moinian, 67, of San Diego, is a former U.S. Army helicopter pilot-turned-civilian-contractor. He pleaded guilty in federal court on June 23, 2022, admitting that he acted as an unregistered agent of China and accepted thousands of dollars from representatives of the Chinese government to provide aviation-related information from his defense-contractor employers.
He also pleaded guilty to making related false statements during national security background checks.//
Read more:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-us-military-pilot-admits-acting-paid-agent-china-and-lying-national-security
Source: US Justice #Jun23
#NationalSecurity #Espionage #Bribe #ChineseAgent