BREAKING: The Justice Department reveals what it says is evidence of expanding espionage and security activity by the Chinese government on U.S. soil.
n New York City and using it as a base of operations to spy on, co-opt or intimidate Chinese dissidents living in the city and elsewhere.
The two suspects operated out a Manhattan office building in Chinatown at the direction of a Chinese police official, prosecutors alleged. "It is simply outrageous that China's Ministry of Public Security thinks it can get away with establishing a secret, illegal police station on U.S. soil to aid its efforts to export repression and subvert our rule of law," said Acting Assistant Director Kurt Ronnow of the Counterintelligence Division.
If convicted of conspiring to act as agents of the PRC, the defendants face a maximum sentence of five years in prison. The obstruction of justice charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
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