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NYC man convicted of running secret police station linked to Chinese government

The Independent·Owen Scott·21 days ago
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A man accused of running a secret Chinese spy outpost in a New York City police station has been convicted of acting as an illegal foreign agent. Lu Jianwang, a U.S. citizen also known as “Harry Lu,” opened the station in lower Manhattan in 2022 on behalf of China’s Ministry of Public Security . The MPS is China’s primary domestic law enforcement and intelligence agency.​ On Wednesday he was convicted on one count of acting as an illegal agent of the government of the People’s Republic of China and one count of obstruction of justice for destroying related evidence. Now, he faces up to 30 years behind bars.​ “Lu Jianwang used a police station in New York City to target PRC dissidents in furtherance of the Chinese government’s political agenda,” James C. Barnacle Jr., the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s New York Field Office, said.…

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