The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday announced charges against 10 alleged Chinese government spies and three other Chinese nationals in three separate cases, including a matter in which two intelligence officers sought to recruit a U.S. double agent in order to damage prosecution of tech company Huawei.
The sprawling activity described by DOJ includes several different plots, and is part of a pressure campaign on U.S.-based Chinese citizens who have been critical of the Chinese Communist Party.
The announcement, led by Attorney General Merrick Garland, comes as the U.S. continues its 2019 case against Huawei, which was expanded in 2020 to include racketeering and intellectual property theft in addition to bank fraud.
“The defendants believed that they had recruited the U.S. employee as an asset, but in fact, the individual they recruited was actually a double agent, working on behalf of the FBI,” Garland said on Monday.
At one point, two alleged Chinese spies, Guochun He and Zheng Wang, paid the agent more than $60,000 in bitcoin for what was actually bogus information about DOJ’s prosecution. The two men are still at large.
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#BREAKING: DOJ charges 13 in cases targeting Chinese spy and influence campaigns https://t.co/RrrvP4hINX pic.twitter.com/M0mz5m6SpB
— The Hill (@thehill) October 24, 2022
US Attorney General Merrick Garland: “The defendants believed they had recruited a US government employee as an asset. But in fact, the individual they recruited was actually a double agent working on behalf of the FBI.” pic.twitter.com/WzpE3Uvncf
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) October 24, 2022
The Justice Department has indicted nearly a dozen people in three separate cases related to China espionage activity. https://t.co/KJiLubyucU pic.twitter.com/7sjZNjzaGB
— POLITICO (@politico) October 24, 2022
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