An ex-Chicago college student convicted on charges he was acting as a spy for China is part of a prisoner exchange in a deal for the release of three Americans held for years by Beijing, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.
Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel and Tom JonesEx-Chicago college student Chaoqun Ji, convicted for acting as a spy for China, is part of the U.S.-China prisoner swap announced by the White House.An ex-Chicago college student convicted on charges he was acting as a spy for China is part of a prisoner exchange in aWhen Chaoqun Ji -- whose name is listed in U.S. court documents as Ji Chaoqun -- was convicted in a spy scheme and sent to prison for eight years, he vehemently denied being a spy.
Cheronis told the I-Team in the coming weeks, he was planning to meet Ji at the Terre Haute federal prison in Indiana, where Ji wasfor what is known in the spycraft trade as "espionage light," or working as an unregistered agent for China. Three Chinese nationals were traded for three Americans held in Chinese custody and accused of being spies: Mark Swidan, Kai Lee and John Leung.
Chinese national Ji, 33, was convicted on charges related to providing intelligence officials in China with background check information on eight American citizens including defense contractors, federal investigatorsJi had arrived in Chicago in 2013 with a student visa to study electrical engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology on the South Side.
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