An intelligence officer for the Chinese government was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Wednesday for committing economic espionage and attempting to steal trade secrets from GE Aviation.
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Yanjun Xu, 42, is the first Chinese intelligence officer ever to be extradited to the U.S. to stand trial. He wasin Cincinnati on November 5, 2021, on multiple charges related to attempted economic espionage and trade secret theft. Court documents indicate he targeted GE Aviation to steal technology related to GE Aviation's composite aircraft engine fan module – which hasn't been duplicated by any other company in the world – to benefit the Chinese military and aviation sector.
According to the Dept. of Justice, Xu's career as an intelligence officer began in 2003, and he rose to the rank of deputy division director at the Chinese Ministry of State Security , the intelligence and security agency for China. Xu's efforts to obtain trade secrets from U.S. companies that are recognized as leaders in the aviation field began in 2013.
He also was involved with handling an individual named Ji Chaoqun, who was convicted in September 2022 for working on behalf of the MSS under Xu's orders and joined the U.S. Army with the intent of securing a top-secret security clearance. Ji was apprehended after he told an undercover FBI agent that he had access to U.S. military bases and volunteered, without prompting, to photograph American aircraft carriers for the MSS.
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