NYPD officer charged with spying on Tibetan immigrants for China
This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by applegrove (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).
Source: The Guardian
A New York City police officer has been charged with being an intelligence asset for the Chinese government, who agreed to spy on US supporters of the Tibetan independence movement.
Baimadajie Angwang, a naturalized US citizen from Tibet, worked since 2018 as an agent for the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in its effort to suppress the movement, according to a criminal complaint filed in Brooklyn federal court. It says he secretly worked for unnamed handlers from the Chinese consulate in New York.
There was no allegation that Angwang compromised national security or New York police department (NYPD) operations. Still, he was considered the definition of an insider threat, William Sweeney, the head of the FBI’s New York office, said in a statement.
Advertisement
Angwang, 33, was ordered to be held without bail at an initial court hearing on Monday.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/21/new-york-police-officer-china-tibetan-immigrants-spying-charges
= new reply since forum marked as read
