“We will defend the rights of people in the United States to engage in free speech and political expression, including views the PRC government wants to silence,” Matthew Olsen, assistant attorney general for national security, said in a statement. assistant attorney general for national security, speaks during a National Security Institute event at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, Feb. Sun, who is a Chinese citizen and allegedly orchestrated the scheme, remains at large.įILE - Matthew Olsen, U.S. In addition, Liu and Ziburis are charged with acting as agents of the Chinese government without registering with the Justice Department, while Liu and Sun are charged with conspiring to bribe a federal official.
The three men face multiple criminal charges, including conspiring to commit interstate harassment and criminal use of a means of identification. residents whose political views and actions are disfavored” by the Chinese government, such as advocacy for democracy in China, the Justice Department said. Three others indicted in the case – Fan “Frank” Liu, Matthew Ziburis and Qiang “Jason” Sun – allegedly carried out “the transnational repression scheme to target U.S. Taylor faces an additional charge of making a false statement to the FBI in connection with the investigation.Ī DHS spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. Each faces one count of obstruction of justice. Department of Homeland Security agent and a former agent in connection with an alleged Chinese government-sponsored scheme to stalk, harass and spy on U.S.-based Chinese critics of Beijing, the Justice Department said Thursday.Ĭraig Miller, a 15-year DHS employee, and Derrick Taylor, a retired DHS agent working as a private investigator, are accused of accessing and providing information about the Chinese activists from a restricted government database to two other individuals who then used the records to target the victims, according to the indictment, returned Wednesday.
A federal grand jury has indicted a current U.S.
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