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Chinese Government Spy Gets Long Prison Sentence

November 17, 2022 by Peter Vargas
President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping at an informal meeting of the heads of state and government of the BRICS countries ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg / Photo by the Kremlin via Wikimedia Commons

A Chinese national who was convicted on behalf of the communist Chinese government was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison. A federal judge in Ohio’s Southern District sentenced Yanjun Xu, 42, on charges of “economic espionage and theft of trade secrets,” according to American Defense News. The move comes almost four years following Xu’s conviction by a jury. Xu attempted to steal aviation industry secrets. The report notes:

According to federal prosecutors, Xu was a career intelligence officer with China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). Xu allegedly began working in the Chinese intelligence service in 2003 and worked his way up to the rank of deputy division director.

Xu allegedly used multiple aliases like Qu Hui and Zhang Hui, as well as front companies and universities, to deceive aviation industry employees in an effort to get them to divulge industry information. The scheme often involved inviting those industry employees to travel to China to give presentations.

Prosecutors say MSS agents would access guest’s hotel rooms to hack or copy information on their computers while Xu took the aviation industry employees out to dinner. Prosecutors said this scheme was carried out in coordination with the MSS and Chinese aviation entities.

Xu also openly talked about efforts to both commercial aviation and U.S. military information.

The now-convicted Chinese spy attempted infiltration into General Electric Aviation and was apprehended during a planned meetup. Xu also served as a handler for another convicted Chinse spy, Ji Chaoqun. Chaoqun attempted infiltration into the U.S. Army Reserves under the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI) program.



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