{"id":134744,"date":"2022-12-14T08:15:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T13:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=134744"},"modified":"2022-12-13T15:57:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T20:57:36","slug":"indictment-unsealed-on-marine-veteran-accused-of-training-chinese-military-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=134744","title":{"rendered":"Indictment unsealed on Marine veteran accused of training Chinese military pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daniel Edmund Duggan<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Marine veteran, a former Marine pilot, is being held in Australia pending extradition to the US. His 2017 indictment was unsealed this past Friday. The indictment alleges that he provided military aviation training to Chinese nationals. A Chinese business firm compensated him for his services. According to the article, this action violates a federal law applicable to providing defense services. The U.S. has until December 20, 2022, to request his extradition.<\/p>\n

From the Military Times:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the indictment, Duggan faces two counts of violating U.S. arms control laws, one count of conspiracy to launder money and one count of conspiracy.<\/p>\n

The indictment, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, also lists eight unnamed alleged co-conspirators, including the unnamed Chinese business and a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot.<\/p>\n

At the behest of the unnamed business, according to the indictment, Duggan also evaluated People\u2019s Republic of China military pilot trainees and taught them how to fly planes on and off aircraft carriers.<\/p>\n

The Marine veteran provided this training more than three times starting in 2010 or earlier, the indictment alleges, and at least twice at a flight school in South Africa. In 2010, the flight school and the Chinese business bought a decommissioned T-2 Buckeye, a naval training plane, from a private seller in the United States, according to the indictment.<\/p>\n

The indictment also charges that Duggan engaged in money laundering by covering up the payments that he received for training the pilots. The unnamed Chinese business paid him thousands of dollars at a time for \u201cpersonal development training,\u201d according to the indictment.<\/p>\n

Duggan and his alleged co-conspirators didn\u2019t apply for a U.S. license to carry on these activities, according to the indictment, which added that the U.S. government would have denied a license as a matter of policy.<\/p>\n

Providing a \u201cdefense service\u201d like military training to foreign nationals violates U.S. law, the indictment notes.<\/p>\n

Australian police arrested Duggan at the request of the United States, which sought to extradite him on what were then undisclosed charges. The arrest came as the Australian Defence Department announced a crackdown on its former military pilots training members of the Chinese military.<\/p>\n

Duggan shared an address in Beijing with Chinese businessman Su Bin, who in 2016 pleaded guilty in California to helping Chinese hackers steal sensitive information regarding U.S. military aircraft, Reuters previously reported, which also first reported the unsealing of the indictment.<\/p>\n

Duggan is being held in Sydney, Reuters reported. The U.S. government has until Dec. 20 to file an extradition request, according to previous Reuters reporting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Military Times has additional information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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