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Email updatesJune 26, 2020
Press Release
Hao Zhang, 41, of China, was found guilty of economic espionage, theft of trade ... secrets for the benefit of the People’s Republic of China “The defendant plotted with Tianjin University to ... his own employer, to China for the benefit of the Chinese Government,” said Assistant Attorney General for ...
August 24, 2020
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... steps to obscure his affiliations and collaboration with a Chinese University and at least one Chinese-owned company. ... participation, collaboration or coordination with China, any Chinese-owned company or any Chinese University, ... of our nation and our prized research institutions.” “China is building an economy and academic institutions with ...
September 16, 2020
Press Release
... were residents and nationals of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), with computer intrusions affecting over 100 ... two Malaysian businessmen who conspired with two of the Chinese hackers to profit from computer intrusions targeting ... communist party has chosen a different path of making China safe for cybercriminals so long as they attack ...
Speech
... activities as “one of the broadest campaigns by a Chinese cyber espionage actor [] in recent years.” We are ... unsealed three indictments that, collectively, charge five Chinese nationals with computer hacking and charge two ... history of choosing a different path, that of making China safe for their own cyber criminals, so long as they ...
July 23, 2020
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... their status as members of the People’s Republic of China’s military forces, the People’s Liberation Army ... is a fugitive from justice currently being harbored at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco. In addition to these ... in more than 25 American cities. “These members of China’s People Liberation Army applied for research visas ...
November 16, 2020
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On the two-year anniversary of the Attorney General’s China Initiative, the Department continues its significant ... the policies and practices of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) government. "In the last year, the Department has ... intellectual capital that will propel the future." "The Chinese Communist Party’s theft of sensitive information ...
September 21, 2020
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... acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as well as committing wire fraud, making false ... should be aware that they are not immune to the threat of Chinese espionage,” said Assistant Attorney General for ... on behalf of a foreign power, the People’s Republic of China. This type of conduct simply cannot be ...
February 10, 2020
Press Release
... an indictment last week charging four members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with hacking into ... of state-sponsored computer intrusions and thefts by China and its citizens that have targeted ... - Georgia, Northern Indictment Alleges Four Members of China’s People’s Liberation Army Engaged in a Three-Month ...
November 18, 2020
Press Release
Today, Wei Sun, 49, a Chinese national and naturalized citizen of the United ... to January 2019, Sun traveled from the United States to China on a personal trip. On that trip, Sun brought along ... correctly, Sun knowingly transported the information to China without an export license in violation of the AECA and ...
January 28, 2020
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Harvard University Professor and Two Chinese Nationals Charged in Three Separate China Related Cases
... Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department and two Chinese nationals have been charged in connection with aiding the People’s Republic of China. Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, Chair of the Department of ... of a foreign government and conspiracy. Ye is currently in China. Zaosong Zheng, 30, a Chinese national, was arrested ...
August 28, 2020
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A Chinese national and researcher at the University of ... hard drive after Guan was not allowed to board a flight to China and after Guan refused the FBI’s request to examine ... transferring sensitive U.S. software or technical data to China’s National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) ...
December 18, 2020
Press Release
... (Company-1) who was based in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), allegedly participated in a scheme to disrupt a ... “No company with significant business interests in China is immune from the coercive power of the Chinese Communist Party,” said Assistant Attorney General ...
October 29, 2020
Press Release
... Technologies Co. (JET) in Yantai, People’s Republic of China; Jason Oil and Gas Equipment LLC (JOG) USA and Chinese national Lei Gao aka Jason Gao, 45, are charged with ... previously resided in Houston but is now believed to be in China. A warrant remains outstanding for his arrest. Also ...
July 30, 2020
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... “Once again we see the People’s Republic of China (PRC) facilitating the theft of our nation’s ... from this American institution and transferring them to China after receiving payments from the Chinese government.” “Li Chen was a trusted researcher at ...
October 28, 2020
Speech
... for acting as agents of the People’s Republic of China while taking part in an illegal Chinese law enforcement operation known as Fox Hunt here in ... the country this morning. The rest, we believe, are in China. Since 2014, at the direction of Chinese General ...
Press Release
Eight Individuals Charged With Conspiring to Act as Illegal Agents of the People’s Republic of China
... States as illegal agents of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Six defendants also face related charges of ... on these charges of illegally doing the bidding of the Chinese government here in the United States now face the prospect of prison. For those charged in China and others engaged in this type of conduct, our message ...
July 9, 2020
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A rheumatology professor and researcher with strong ties to China has been ordered held without bond to face a charge of ... from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop China’s expertise in the areas of rheumatology and ... several USB drives, several silver bars, expired Chinese passports for his family, deeds for property in China ...
December 10, 2020
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A Chinese citizen was extradited from Malaysia to the United ... for money laundering. Kang Juntao, 24, of Hangzhou City, China, was charged in February 2019 with financing a ... sex, coloring, and age. The United States, Malaysia, China, and approximately 181 other countries are signatories ...
July 21, 2020
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... both nationals and residents of the People’s Republic of China (China), with hacking into the computer systems of hundreds of ... gain, and in others for the benefit of the MSS or other Chinese government agencies. The hackers stole terabytes of ...
March 17, 2020
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... fine for acting as an agent of the People’s Republic of China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) in connection with ... a source in the United States to the MSS operatives in China, announced the Department of Justice. “This case exposed one of the ways that Chinese intelligence officers work to collect classified ...
July 28, 2020
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... from Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in Wuhan, China. Dr. Charles Lieber, 61, was indicted by a federal ... at WUT and, later, a contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan from at least 2012 through ... Thousand Talents Plan is one of the most prominent Chinese talent recruitment plans designed to attract, recruit ...
February 27, 2020
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... and prosecution uncovered another instance of China’s persistent attempts to steal American intellectual ... Tan seek to steal American trade secrets to take home to China so they can replicate our technology,” said U.S. ... Judge Gregory K. Frizzell sentenced Hongjin Tan, 36, a Chinese National and U.S. legal permanent resident, to 24 ...
September 15, 2020
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... job with the Thousand Talents Program, established by the Chinese government to recruit individuals with access to or ...
November 12, 2020
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A rheumatology professor and researcher with strong ties to China pleaded guilty to making false statements to federal ... benefit of American society — not as a subsidy for the Chinese Government,” said Assistant Attorney General for ... FBI’s Counterintelligence Division. “Zheng promised China he would enhance the country’s biomedical research. ...
July 17, 2020
Speech
... my remarks they are going to put on a presentation of the China Initiative, which I think you’ll find very ... United States’ response to the global ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party. The CCP rules with an iron fist ... passivity and naivety regarding the People’s Republic of China are over.” And last week, the FBI Director Chris ...
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