Former Harvard professor Charles Lieber, because of concealing his "Thousand Talents Plan", was sentenced to six months under house arrest at home on Wednesday (April 26).
Comprehensive Bloomberg and Reuters reported that the Boston US court judge Rya Zobel tried on Wednesday.Zabel was sentenced to two days of prison and needed to be under house arrest for six months. At the same time, he was also sentenced to two years of supervision release.Lieberg had been in prison for two days when he was arrested for the first time in 2020.
Libo also had to pay a fine of $ 50,000 (about S $ 66,700) and the US $ 33,600 arrears that have paid the US Taxation Agency.
The 64 -year -old Libo is a well -known nano scientist. He has served as the director of the Department of Chemistry of Harvard University and retired after 30 years of work.In December 2021, he provided false testimony for suspected false taxes, and failed to notify a overseas bank account he had established in China to be convicted.The prosecutor also accused Lieber's connection to the Federal Officials that he had a connection with Wuhan University of Technology and the "Thousand Talents Plan".
The U.S. Department of Justice said that in the process of seeking the Nobel Prize, Libo agreed to become a "strategic scientist" from Wuhan University from 2012 to 2015, and participated in the university's "Thousand Talents Planning Plan for Thousand Talents Program through the university."Recruitment activities.During these three years, he received a monthly remuneration of $ 50,000 and a living expenses of about $ 150,000, and received a bonus of more than 1.5 million US dollars as research and development funds for the university research laboratory.
Participating in the plan itself does not constitute a crime, but according to the US prosecutors, Lieber lied to the U.S. Department of Defense and the National Institute of Health.Contact of the University of Science and Technology.He did not report the above income to the State Taxation Bureau in the 2013 and 2014 income tax declaration forms.In addition, in the past two years, Lieber has not notified him to open a foreign bank account in Wuhan, and Wuhan University of Science and Technology has deposited some of Lieber's salary from there.
The US Department of Defense and the National Institute of Health have provided Ribai with $ 15 million in research funding.
Lieber said in the court before he was sentenced: "I'm very sorry to drag my family into this torture." When mentioning his crime, he said that he focused on science and helpPeople "ignored other matters" and said that they regret that they did not provide a more complete explanation of their contact with China.