US Arrests Chinese Citizen For Allegedly Acting As Illegal Agent - Justice Dept.

WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 26th September, 2018) A Chinese citizen living in Chicago has been arrested on charges of spying in the United States and attempting to recruit engineers, scientists and military contractors as future spies, the Department of Justice announced in a press release.

"Ji [Chaoqun] worked at the direction of a high-level intelligence officer in the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security [JSSD], a provincial department of the Ministry of State Security for the People's Republic of China," the release said on Tuesday. "Ji was tasked with providing the intelligence officer with biographical information on eight individuals for possible recruitment by the JSSD."

The targeted individuals included Chinese nationals who were working as engineers and scientists in the United States, some of whom were US defense contractors, according to the release.