A Manhattan man pleaded guilty to aiding the establishment of a secret police station in New York City operated by the Chinese government.
A Manhattan man has pleaded guilty to aiding the establishment of a secret police station in New York City operated by the Chinese government. Prosecutors say Chen Jinping, 60, and his co-defendant, Lu Jianwang, opened and operated a local branch of China's Ministry of Public Security in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood starting in early 2022.
While China has dismissed these allegations, claiming the facilities are merely service centers assisting citizens with tasks like renewing driver's licenses, critics and officials argue the operations serve a more sinister purpose. The station offered seemingly mundane services like assisting Chinese citizens in renewing driver's licenses. However, its darker purpose was to surveil and identify pro-democracy activists living in the U.S., aligning with the People's Republic of China's broader agenda of transnational repression. The operation, shut down amid an FBI probe in late 2022, was part of a larger network of such facilities. Further complicating the investigation, Chen and Lu reportedly deleted messages with their Chinese government contacts in an effort to obstruct justice, prosecutors said
CHINA SECRET POLICE NEW YORK CITY FOREIGN INTERFERENCE TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION
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