NEW YORK: A outstanding Chinese language-born tutorial and writer who feigned being a pro-democracy activist was convicted on Tuesday of appearing as a covert Chinese language agent, the Justice Division mentioned.
After a one-week trial, a jury convicted Shujun Wang, 75, of 4 counts of appearing and conspiring to behave as an agent of a overseas authorities.
He will probably be sentenced in January and faces as much as 25 years in jail.
Wang, a naturalized US citizen, co-founded a pro-democracy group in Queens, the Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang Memorial Basis, that was ostensibly against China’s communist regime, the Justice Division mentioned.
Assistant Lawyer Basic Matthew Olsen mentioned Wang, whereas “masquerading as a pro-democracy activist,” was “covertly amassing and reporting delicate info” about members of the group to China’s intelligence service since no less than 2006.
“The indictment might have been the plot of a John LeCarre or Graham Greene spy novel, however the proof is shockingly actual that the defendant led a double life, pretending for years to be an activist for democracy whereas he was secretly passing info to the Chinese language authorities,” US lawyer Breon Peace mentioned.
4 Chinese language intelligence officers had been indicted in the USA together with Wang however stay at massive.
Based on prosecutors, the Chinese language brokers directed Wang to focus on Hong Kong pro-democracy activists, advocates for Taiwanese independence, and Uyghur and Tibetan activists.
After a one-week trial, a jury convicted Shujun Wang, 75, of 4 counts of appearing and conspiring to behave as an agent of a overseas authorities.
He will probably be sentenced in January and faces as much as 25 years in jail.
Wang, a naturalized US citizen, co-founded a pro-democracy group in Queens, the Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang Memorial Basis, that was ostensibly against China’s communist regime, the Justice Division mentioned.
Assistant Lawyer Basic Matthew Olsen mentioned Wang, whereas “masquerading as a pro-democracy activist,” was “covertly amassing and reporting delicate info” about members of the group to China’s intelligence service since no less than 2006.
“The indictment might have been the plot of a John LeCarre or Graham Greene spy novel, however the proof is shockingly actual that the defendant led a double life, pretending for years to be an activist for democracy whereas he was secretly passing info to the Chinese language authorities,” US lawyer Breon Peace mentioned.
4 Chinese language intelligence officers had been indicted in the USA together with Wang however stay at massive.
Based on prosecutors, the Chinese language brokers directed Wang to focus on Hong Kong pro-democracy activists, advocates for Taiwanese independence, and Uyghur and Tibetan activists.
