New York. China is adopting new tactics everyday to spy around the world. After the spy balloon in America, once again a new way of spying in China has been revealed. Two people have been arrested for helping the Chinese government set up a secret police station in New York City. Also, more than three dozen officers of China’s national police force have been accused of using social media to harass people in the US.
The case concerned a local branch of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, which operated inside an office building in Manhattan’s Chinatown amid an FBI investigation. According to the Justice Department, the two individuals accused of setting up the outpost were acting under the direction and control of a Chinese government official and ceased contact with that official after they learned of the investigation.
Liu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59, have been charged with conspiracy to act as agents of the Chinese government without informing US authorities and obstruction of justice, prosecutors said, according to news agency PTI. In a statement, Brooklyn’s top federal prosecutor Breon Peace said, “The accused were playing with the sovereignty of our country by setting up an undercover Chinese police station in the heart of New York City.”
Prosecutors said that in the year 2022, the Chinese government asked Lu to help locate a pro-democracy activist living in California. Prosecutors said the pair had admitted to the FBI that they had severed their contact with a Chinese government official after learning they were under investigation.
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