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ninja has forwarded the news that an NYPD police officer has been arrested for spying for the Chinese. The officer is also a serving member of the US Army Reserve where he’s a civil affairs staff sergeant. He may have spent time as a US Marine as well.<\/p>\n
\nBaimadajie Angwang, 33, who was born in\u00a0China’s Tibet region\u00a0and\u00a0serves in the U.S. Army Reserve, allegedly reported on the activity of ethnic Tibetans in the New York area to the Chinese consulate and\u00a0was tasked with recruiting potential intelligence assets among the city’s Tibetan community, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
As an agent, he\u00a0\u201cspotted and assessed potential ethnic Tibetan intelligence sources in the New York metropolitan area and beyond,\u201d the complaint said. Tibetans have long been oppressed by the Chinese government and many are believed to have been killed since China occupied the region decades ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As for Angwang’s background;<\/p>\n
He initially traveled to the U.S. on a cultural exchange visa, which he overstayed, prosecutors said. He sought alyssum, claiming he’d\u00a0been arrested and tortured in China because of his Tibetan ethnicity. Though he is Tibetan, his ties to China run deep, the Justice Department said.<\/p>\n
His father is retired from China People’s Liberation Army and is a member of the Chinese\u00a0Communist Party, prosecutors allege. His mother is a retired government official and also a member of the Communist Party and his brother serves as a reservist in the PLA.<\/p>\n
All three live in China.<\/p>\n
Investigators found that in 2016, Angwang wired $100,000 from a U.S. bank to his brother’s account\u00a0and subsequently wired an additional\u00a0$50,000 to someone else in China. He also received multiple wire transfers from China, officials said.<\/p>\n
Since June 2018, he had been communicating with a Chinese\u00a0official he referred to as “Boss,” prosecutors said. In October of that year, Angwang\u00a0advised the official about a new Tibetan community center in Queens that they should visit together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Much more at the source link; Fox News<\/a> and CBS New York<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"