An associate professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK) who was receiving funding from NASA has been arrested and charged by federal authorities with hiding his relationship with a Chinese university.
The Justice Department said Thursday in a press release that Anming Hu was arrested and charged with three counts of wire fraud and three counts of lying to investigators.
He is accused of hiding his relationship with the Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) while working with NASA on a project, a violation of federal laws that prevent NASA from providing funding for projects in collaboration with the Chinese government or Chinese university system.
It wasn’t clear what interest the Beijing university had with Hu’s project, or the nature of the project itself. Pages containing information about Hu’s work with UTK had been deleted from the school’s website by Thursday evening.
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