On Monday, US Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and senior Justice Department officials held a press conference to provide details about newly unsealed investigations into how the People's Republic of China tried to undermine the US government.
While Garland did not name the company, one of the most significant cases was of Chinese interference in America through a telecommunications company. Garland said, "This was an egregious attempt by PRC (People's Republic of China) intelligence officers to shield a PRC-based company from accountability and to undermine the integrity of our judicial system."
Garland outlined how two PRC Intelligence Officers were charged with attempting to obstruct, influence, and impede a criminal prosecution of the unnamed PRC-based telecommunications company.
In that case, based out of the Eastern District of New York, the officers tried to steal the notes and "playbook" of a prosecutor who was arguing a case against a PRC-backed company operating within the US.
The two defendants in that case tried to bribe a third party to steal the notes who turned out to be a double agent working for the DOJ.
In a separate case based out of New Jersey several foreign agents were arrested for trying to steal US technology. The PRC gave these agents directives that "included attempts to procure technology and equipment from the United States and to have it shipped to China."
In another case based out of the Eastern District of New York the Justice Department charged eight individuals working on behalf of the PRC with "engaging in a multi-year campaign of threats and harassment to force a US citizen to return to China."
"The indictment alleges that the defendants working at the direction of the government of the PRC engaged in a campaign of harassment, threats, surveillance and intimidation, aimed at coercing the victim to return to China," Wray said.
On the Department of Justice's website more details are provided as "Quanzhong An, his daughter Guangyang An, Tian Peng, Chenghua Chen, Chunde Ming, Xuexin Hou, and Weidong Yuan," are charged as agents working on the repatriation of a PRC national residing in the United States.
FBI Director Wray said, "Let me begin by pointing out that 10 of the 13 charged individuals we're discussing today are Chinese intelligence officers and Chinese government officials. They're charged in three different cases that might seem at first glance to be about unrelated issues."
Wray said the cases were interconnected and all part of Chinese attempts to disrupt the United States government and business norms.
"Since I started as FBI director, I've been repeatedly sounding the alarm about the Chinese government's disregard for fair business practices for international norms and for the rule of law," Wray added.
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