Two Chinese nationals have been indicted in the United States for allegedly using thousands of dollars in cash and jewelry to obstruct a federal investigation of a major Chinese telecom company. BBC News. According to the news provider, the company in question could be bought by Huawei, but at the press conference about that Merrick Garland The federal prosecutor did not name the Chinese company involved in the investigation.
According to the indictment, the two Chinese men tried to gain the confidence of the undercover agent and sought to know the details of the investigation: information on witnesses, evidence and possible criminal consequences. The spies also tried to get a law enforcement official they believed to be their accomplice to secretly record conversations of strategic importance to the case.
The two alleged Chinese spies paid tens of thousands of dollars in cash and jewelry; Including $41,000 in Bitcoin for a single photo of a document marked “Confidential” around the case. However, the FBI agent provided fake documents to the Chinese.
In a separate case, New Jersey prosecutors have charged four other people with conspiracy to embezzle current and former US officials. Seven other Chinese nationals are charged with attempting to force the return of a naturalized American citizen from China. Two suspects have been arrested. According to the attorney general, the Chinese government forced the Chinese-American citizen’s nephew to travel from China to the United States and threatened his relative, saying:
The only way out is to go home and surrender.
