61 year old lu jianwang, pictured on the right and 59 year old chenjinping, pictured on the left are both new york city residents and face charges of conspiring to act as agents for china and obstruction ofjustice as us department ofjustice officials said in a conference this afternoon. these actions under the direction of the chinese government of flagrant violations of american sovereignty and thanks to our investigation and the rest today, with the fbi, the defendants will be held accountable and the body is on notice that we will not tolerate similar threats to our national sovereignty. the secret station is believed to be a part of a network of at least 100 operating across the globe in 53 countries, including the uk and the netherlands. last month, canada s federal police announced an investigation into two montreal area sites thought to be police outposts. the fbi s director christopher wray said in november:. our new york correspondent nada tawfik went to the justice
on the right and 59 year old chenjinping, pictured on the left are both new york city residents and face charges of conspiring to act as agents for china and obstruction ofjustice as us officials said in a conference this afternoon. the defendants actions under the direction of the chinese government are flagrant violations of american sovereignty and thanks to our investigation and arest today, with the fbi, the defendants will be held accountable and the mp5 is on notice that we will not tolerate similar threats to our national sovereignty. let s look at what we know. the secret station is believed to be a a part of a network of at least 100 operating across the globe( in 53 countries, including the uk and the netherlands.and last month, canada s federal police announced an investigation into two sites in montreal thought to be police outposts. the fbi s director christopher wray spoke about this in november, saying to me, it is outrageous to think that the chinese police
new york city residents and face charges of conspiring to act as agents for china and obstruction ofjustice as us department ofjustice officials said in a conference this afternoon. the defendants actions under the direction of the chinese government are flagrant violations of american sovereignty and thanks to our investigation and arest today, with the fbi, the defendants will be held accountable and the mp5 is on notice that we will not tolerate similar threats to our national sovereignty. the secret station is believed to be a part of a network of at least 100 operating across the globe in 53 countries, including the uk and the netherlands. last month, canada s federal police announced an investigation into two montreal area sites thought to be police outposts. the fbi s director christopher wray said in november:. our new york correspondent nada tawfik went to the justice department s press conference and has more from new york. us prosecutors say these two older men, w
an investigation into two montreal area sites thought to be police outposts. the fbi s director christopher wray said in november:. our new york correspondent nada tawfik went to the justice department s press conference and has more from new york. us prosecutors say these two older men, who are both new york residents, both us citizens, that they opened an illegal chinese police station in 2022. china s ministry of public security and they said that began in 2022 in order to routinely monitor and intimidate dissidents and anyone critical of china s government in order to silence them and us authorities say that this was essentially an entire floor of an office building in manhattan s chinatown and that these men never notified the attorney general that they were acting as agents of a foreign government as they are required to do.
up shop, you know, in new york, let s say, without proper coordination. our new york correspondent nada tawfik went to the justice department s press conference and has more. us prosecutors say these two older men, who are both new york residents, both us citizens, that they opened an illegal chinese police station in 2022. they did that on behalf of china s ministry of public security to routinely monitor and intimidate dissidents in those critical of the chinese government in order to silence them. they allegedly conducted these operations from a floor in an office building in manhattan s chinatown, as you mentioned now, and the key here is that they never notify the attorney general that they were acting as agents of a foreign government as they are required to do. what they did is they allegedly closed the police station when they realise they were getting investigated. the fbi got an authorised search of the building,