He set up a fake pro democracy group, then reported the members to chines government. And you ask why the US doesn’t trust these people.
A Chinese-born U.S. citizen living in New York has been arrested and charged with spying on prominent Chinese dissidents, with the help of four Chinese intelligence officers who remain at large.
Charges against the five were filed in a Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday, and the March 16 arrest of the New Yorker, Shujun Wang, a prominent 73-year-old academic, was announced on Wednesday.
He will be arraigned at a later date, prosecutors said.
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Wang, who lived in Queens, is accused him of using the pro-democracy organization that he founded to 'covertly collect information about prominent activists and human rights leaders.'
He founded in Flushing, Queens, a pro-democracy organization called the Memorial Foundation in 2016.
Wang then used it as a means to collect information about prominent U.S.- based dissidents, and then report his findings back to the Chinese government, prosecutors said.
'We will not tolerate efforts by the [People's Republic of China] or any authoritarian government to export repressive measures to our country,' said Matthew G. Olsen, assistant attorney general of the DoJ's national security division..
'These charges demonstrate the Justice Department's unwavering commitment to hold accountable all those who violate our laws in seeking to suppress dissenting