(Washington, DC) On Wednesday (November 16), the US Department of Justice said that a Chinese government intelligence personnel were sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment in the United States for trying to steal trade secrets.
According to the Voice of the United States, the Office of the Federal Prosecutor's Office of the South -Russian South -Russian region of the United States Department of Justice announced that the first 42 -year -old Chinese government intelligence officer Xu Yanjun (transliteration), who was extradited to the United States, was extradited to the United States.The court was sentenced to 20 years in prison for spy.
The court document shows that Xu Yanjun's goal is American Airlines. On behalf of the Chinese government, he recruited employees from US airlines to China and asked for business intelligence in their company.
The Cincinnati federal jury ruled that all the charges faced by Xu Yanjun faced by Xu Yanjun last November, including conspiracy to engage in economic spy, theft of trade secrets, trying to engage in economic spy and theft trade secrets.
Prosecutor said that Xu Yanjun was a professional intelligence officer and began to be promoted to the deputy director level of the Ministry of National Security in 2003.Starting at least in December 2013, Xu Yanjun has targeted the target of leading companies in the field of aviation technology in the United States and overseas.
