Tue Apr 18, 2023 – 8:08 pm EDT
NEW YORK (LifeSiteNews) — Two men were arrested and charged Monday for allegedly “opening and operating an illegal overseas police station” in an office building in Manhattan’s Chinatown on behalf of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) of the communist People’s Republic of China, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
“Harry” Lu Jianwang, 61, of the Bronx and Chen Jinping, 59, of Manhattan were arrested at their New York homes on Monday morning and scheduled to appear before a U.S. magistrate judge that afternoon in Brooklyn, according to the DOJ statement. Lu and Chen have been “charged with conspiring to act as agents of the PRC government as well as obstructing justice by destroying evidence of their communications with an MPS official.”
If convicted, they could face up to five years in prison for the conspiracy charge and 20 years behind bars for obstruction of justice.
Forty-four other members of China’s national police have been separately charged with “various crimes” committed in attempts to track down and harass Chinese dissidents who have fled to the U.S.
Two Arrested for Operating Illegal Overseas Police
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