The United States Department of Justice announced this Monday that it had filed accusation of thirteen officials and alleged Chinese intelligence agents espionage and abuse On behalf of the Beijing Government on US soil.
Among those charged are two Chinese spies allegedly interfering with a federal investigation by the United States against a telecommunications company in New York. about huawei.
US Attorney General, Merrick WreathThe Justice Department’s “second number” Lisa O. Monaco made the announcement at a press conference accompanied by FBI Director General Christopher Wray and Assistant Attorney General of Homeland Security Matthew Olsen.
Accurate information
Garland, according to the indictments, In 2019, these two defendants asked an infiltrating FBI agent to steal classified information. About a lawsuit filed in the US against a China-based telecommunications company.
The two so-called Chinese spies thought they had succeeded in recruiting a US official as an asset, when what they were actually doing was hiring an FBI double agent in the service of the US.
Garland added it alleged Chinese spies bribed double agent to obtain non-public dataSuch as the US Attorney’s strategy in the case against the Chinese telecommunications firm and files from the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York to access confidential information about witnesses.
The FBI agent provided documents that were apparently correct, despite the fact that it had been prepared by the US government to accuse them of espionage.
On the other hand, the US attorney general pointed out that he was in another court in the District of New Jersey. Another indictment issued against four peopleCharged with “acting as illegal agents in the United States on behalf of a foreign government”, with three alleged Chinese intelligence personnel.
An institute as a cover
“The indictment states that the defendants were between 2008 and 2018. so-called chinese academic institute “To target individuals in the United States and other Chinese intelligence missions,” said Garland.
Among other missions, they allegedly tried to get US technology and equipment to ship to China, and Tried to thwart protests on US soil “They would embarrass the Chinese government,” said the US Chief Justice.
To these two open cases was added a third case, also before the Eastern District Court of New York, in which the Washington administration brought charges against seven people allegedly working for Beijing. “To threaten, harass and force a person living in the United States to return to China.”
“We arrested two of the defendants last Thursday,” Garland said, adding that China often relocates suspected fugitives from the country to other parts of the world to force them to return to their homeland.
“As these cases show, the Chinese government Interfering with the rights and freedoms of individuals in the United States. and undermining our judicial system that upholds these rights,” Garland said, assuring that the Justice Department “will not tolerate” any foreign power’s efforts to undermine compliance.