The illegal overseas police outpost was established to threaten critics of China residing inside the United States and monitor them, according to U.S. officials: “It is simply outrageous.'
at their homes in New York City on Monday for allegedly running an illegal Chinese police station in the heart of New York City, according to court documents obtained by The Daily Beast.
For his part, Lu was allegedly responsible for helping Beijing locate a Chinese dissident living in California just last year, according to U.S. officials. He was also enlisted to harass a purported Chinese fugitive, in order to pressure them to return to China with threats of violence, according to the court documents. Lu has allegedly been participating in counterprotests in Washington, D.C. since about 2015.
“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,” Acting Assistant Director Kurt Ronnow of the FBI Counterintelligence Division said.
The social media troll group, known as the “912 Special Project Working Group,” allegedly focused on targeting those with political views that run counter to Beijing’s government interest, such as advocating for democracy in China.
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