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25:45Now PlayingAttorney General Merrick Garland and other top Justice Department officials will announce national security investigations into a foreign country.
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Justice Department officials unsealed charges Monday against 13 Chinese operatives involved in three separate influence campaigns, including two intelligence officers accused in a brazen attempt to obstruct a federal criminal investigation into the Chinese-based telecommunications company Huawei.
The obstruction case, federal authorities said, represented a stunning attempted intervention in the U.S. criminal justice system in which the suspects, Dong He, also known as Guochun He, and Zheng Wang, also known as Zen Wang, allegedly led an effort to steal files and other information from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, New York, related to the ongoing federal criminal investigation and prosecution of Huawei.
The company's identity was not included in court documents, but a person familiar the matter confirmed that it was Huawei. The suspects, who remain at large, allegedly paid a $41,000 Bitcoin bribe to a U.S. government employee, who was actually working as a double-agent for the FBI.
“The defendants believed they had recruited the U.S. government employee as an asset,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said. "But in fact, the individual they recruited was actually a double agent, working on behalf of the FBI.” The two other cases involved efforts to force the repatriation of a Chinese national living in the United States, and a long-running Chinese intelligence operation to recruit U.S. residents to act as agents for China.
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