Chen Jinping, 60, admitted to establishing an undeclared police station in Manhattan on behalf of the Chinese government and attempting to conceal the operation from the FBI. Prosecutors say the station, located in Chinatown, helped Chinese citizens with services like renewing driver's licenses but also targeted pro-democracy activists in the U.S.
A Manhattan resident has pleaded guilty to helping establish a secret police station in New York City on behalf of the Chinese government. Chen Jinping, 60, entered the guilty plea on a single count of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday. Matthew Olsen, an assistant attorney general in the U.S.
The clandestine Chinese police operation was shuttered in the fall of 2022 amid an FBI investigation. But in an apparent effort to obstruct the federal probe, Chen and Lu deleted from their phones communications with a Chinese government official they reported to, prosecutors said. China is believed to be operating such secretive police outposts in North America, Europe and other places where there are Chinese communities.
CHINA POLICE STATION FOREIGN INTERFERENCE FBI INVESTIGATION PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS CONSPIRACY
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