The US Department of Justice reported on Wednesday (January 25) that a Chinese citizen was sentenced to eight years of imprisonment on the same day for an illegal Chinese People's Republic of China in the United States.
According to the press release issued by the US Department of Justice on the 25th according to the Voice of the United States, in September last year, the federal jury in the northern district of Illinois ruled that the 31 -year -old Ji Chaoqun (transliteration) was charged with two charges.Established, one was a conspiracy to act as a foreign government, that is, the government agent of the People's Republic of China, and did not notify the US Minister of Justice in advance, and the other was a false statement to the US Army.
Ronald Gutzman, judge of the Federal Federal District Court, made a decision on Ji Chaoqun on the 25th.
The Ministry of Justice said in the press release that the evidence submitted in the trial showed that Ji Chaoqun worked in accordance with the instructions of the senior intelligence personnel of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of National Security.Ji Chaoqun is a Chinese citizen who lives in Chicago. Xu Yanjun, deputy director of the National Security Department of Jiangsu Province, issued a task for him to provide him with some personal information to an intelligence personnel.recruit.These recruits include people engaged in engineering and scientific workers in the United States, and some of them work for US defense contractors.This task is part of the efforts of advanced aerospace and satellite technology developed by the National Security Department of Jiangsu Province.
According to the press release, Xu Yanjun was ruled by the federal jury by the southern district of Ohio in November 2021 to make a crime of conspiracy and attempting to engage in economic espionage and theft of business secrets. He was sentenced to 20 years in November last year for 20 years.Prison.Xu Yanjun was arrested in Belgium in 2018 and was the first Chinese government intelligence officer to be extradited to the United States.
According to the official allegations of Ji Chaoqun, he was stared at by the Ministry of National Security's agent in China in 2013 before studying in the Electronic Engineering major in the Yizhou Institute of Technology in Chicago.U.S. Prosecutor said that after returning to China in the winter vacation, Ji Chaoqun was invited by Guoan personnel to eat, and eventually got a confidential contract. He swore to loyal to Guoan's cause and agreed to "dedicate the rest of his life to national security."He graduated from Yizhou Institute of Technology in 2015 and joined the US Army reserve in 2016 according to the national scarce talent recruitment plan.
The US Department of Justice said that when Ji Chaoqun applied for joining the army, he lied that he had not had contact with the foreign government in the past seven years.Relationship and contact.
The US Department of Justice also said that the evidence presented during the trial also disclosed that in 2018, Ji Chaoqun met with an undercover law enforcement personnel represented by Chinese Guoan several times.In these meetings, Ji Chaoqun said that he has a soldier's identity and can board the carrier of Rooseford to take photos. He can also find a job at the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Investigation Agency or the National Aerospace Administration.Ji Chaoqun intends to engage in network security work in these institutions, so that they can enter all their databases, including databases containing confidential scientific research information.
According to US law, Ji Chaoqun illegally acts as an agent of foreign governments for up to 10 years in prison, while conspiracy and false statements are convicted, each of which can be sentenced to five years in prison.
