New York man pleads guilty to running Chinese police station in Manhattan | New York
New York man pleads guilty to running Chinese police station in Manhattan | New York
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Bu içerikte, New York’ta bir adamın Çin hükümeti adına gizli bir polis istasyonu işletmekten suçlu olduğu ve Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’ndeki Çinli Amerikalı pro-demokrasi aktivistleri bulma ve bastırma çabalarını hedef alan çabaları açıkladıktan sonra, ABD yargı departmanının Çin’in çabalarını bozmaya yönelik çabalarını ortaya koyduğu belirtilmektedir. Chen Jinping, 60 yaşında, Çin Halk Cumhuriyeti hükümeti adına ajan olarak hareket etme konusunda komplo kurmaktan suçlu bulunmuş ve gelecek yıl cezalandırıldığında beş yıl hapis cezası ile karşı karşıya kalmaktadır. Ayrıca, New York’ta gizli bir polis istasyonu kurdukları iddia edilen iki ABD vatandaşı olan Jinping ve ortak sanık “Harry” Lu Jianwang hakkında bilgiler verilmektedir. Suçlanan iki adamın, MPS’nin yönlendirmesi ve kontrolü altında hareket ettikleri belirtilmektedir. Aynı zamanda, FBI’ın 2022 yılında Chinatown’daki bir ofis binasında gerçekleştirdiği baskın sonucunda, Chen ve Lu’nun telefonlarının ele geçirildiği ve cihazın incelenmesi sonucunda, sanıklar ile bir MPS yetkilisi arasındaki iletişimin silindiği tespit edilmiştir.
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A New York man has pleaded guilty to running a undeclared police station for the Chinese government in lower Manhattan, more than a year after the US justice department unveiled efforts aimed at disrupting Beijing’s efforts to locate and suppress Chinese American pro-democracy activists.
Chen Jinping, 60, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to act as an agent of the government of the People’s Republic of China, in connection with opening and operating an overseas police station for the PRC’s ministry of public security, or MPS.
Chen, who pleaded guilty for acting as an illegal agent, faces five years in prison when he is sentenced next year.
US attorney Breon Peace said Chen was part of a “transnational repression scheme to establish a secret police station in the middle of New York City on behalf of the national police force of the People’s Republic of China”.
Peace added that US prosecutors had made it a priority “to counteract the malign activities of foreign governments that violate our nation’s sovereignty by targeting local diaspora communities in the United States”.
FBI assistant director in charge James Dennehy said that Chen admitted to his role in establishing the illegal police station that had been opened “to further the nefarious and repressive aims of the PRC in direct violation of American sovereignty”.
Jinping and co-defendant “Harry” Lu Jianwang, 62, both US citizens, had been arrested and charged in April last year with illegally acting as foreign agents. Lu has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is awaiting trial.
US officials said that while the secret police station did perform some basic services, such as helping Chinese citizens renew their Chinese driving licenses, it also served a more “sinister” function, including to help the Chinese government locate a pro-democracy activist of Chinese descent living in California.
The arrests came after the justice department charged more than a half-dozen people in 2020 with working on behalf of the Chinese government in a pressure campaign aimed at coercing a New Jersey man wanted by Beijing into returning to China.
In September, the US charged Linda Sun, a former aide of New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, with secretly acting as an agent of the Chinese government. US officials have warned for years of Chinese determination to influence American policy and cultivate relationships with political figures, but also act to pressure US-Chinese nationals domestically.
According to US prosecutors, the two men charged in connection with the illegal police station did so under the direction and control of the MPS.
The police station – which closed in the fall of 2022 – occupied an entire floor in an office building in Manhattan’s Chinatown. The FBI raided the police station in October 2022, and confiscated Chen’s and Lu’s phones. An analysis of the device later found that communications between the defendants and an MPS official appeared to have been deleted.
New York man pleads guilty to running Chinese police station in Manhattan | New York
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