Arrest of Harvard Professor Puts Chinese Economic Espionage in Spotlight
NEW YORK The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) is investigating China-related cases of economic espionage across the country as a growing list of prosecutions against academics and researchers makes the headlines.
The Bureau reports that the Chinese regime is using non-traditional collectors, such as professors, researchers, and front companies as opposed to traditional undercover spies to acquire sensitive technology from the United States.
This comes after the FBI arrested a Harvard University professor for allegedly lying about receiving funding from the Chinese regime to open a research lab in Wuhan, China. Additionally, a researcher at Boston University was indicted after allegedly failing to disclose that he was a lieutenant in the Chinese army and a Chinese national allegedly attempted to smuggle biological materials from a Boston medical center to China. They have all been indicted on federal charges.