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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has unsealed charges against two alleged DPRC spies who are accused of attempting to obstruct a federal prosecution against Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.<\/p>\n
In a criminal complaint dated October 20 and made public on Monday, the U.S. claims that two Chinese intelligence officers, Guochun He (known as \u201cDong He\u201d) and Zheng Wang (known as \u201cZen Wang\u201d), attempted to bribe a U.S. law-enforcement official to obtain what they believed was inside information about the U.S. criminal case against a \u201cglobal telecommunications company based in China.\u201d The complaint doesn\u2019t name the company, but the details match up with the\u00a0with the known prosecution of the company. Huawei did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
The complaint alleges that He and Wang \u201cattempted to direct a person they believed they recruited as an asset\u201d inside a U.S. government law enforcement agency \u201cto obtain confidential information regarding potential new charges to be brought against [Huawei] for the purpose of obstructing justice.\u201d<\/p>\n
The government alleges He and Wang first cultivated their relationship with the law enforcement employee, who is not named, in February 2017, but that person \u201csubsequently began working as a double agent for the U.S. government.\u201d<\/p>\n
The men are accused of attempting to extract confidential information about witnesses and trial evidence in the Huawei case and paid the double agent, referred to as \u201cGE-1\u2019, $61,000 in bitcoin, cash, and jewelery for what they believed was insider information about the Justice Department\u2019s pending prosecution of the China-based company.<\/p>\n
At one point in October 2021, the indictment alleges, the undercover agent passed a single-page document to one of the Chinese intelligence officers, classified as \u201cSECRET\u201d, that detailed U.S. plans to arrest two principals from Huawei living in China. They paid the undercover $41,000 just for that single page.<\/p>\n
\u201cFar more than an effort to collect information or intelligence, the actions of the PRC intelligence officers charged in this case must be called out for what they are: an extraordinary intervention by agents of a foreign government to interfere with the integrity of the U.S. criminal justice system, compromise a U.S. government employee, and obstruct the enforcement of U.S. law to benefit a PRC-based commercial enterprise,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew G. Olsen. \u201cThe Department of Justice will not abide nation-state actors meddling in U.S. criminal process and investigations, and will not tolerate foreign interference with the fair administration of justice.\u201d<\/p>\n
If convicted, He and Wang face up to 60 years and 20 years in prison, respectively.<\/p>\n
The case was one of three unsealed on Monday relating to alleged Chinese interference in the U.S. justice system. One in New Jersey charges three Chinese intelligence agents with conspiring to act in the U.S. as illegal agents on behalf of a foreign government, while another in the Eastern District of New York accuses several people working on behalf of the Chinese government of \u201cengaging in a multi-year campaign of threats and harassment to force a U.S. resident to return to China,\u201d Attorney General Merrick Garland said Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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