{"id":69080,"date":"2022-10-25T16:15:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T13:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=69080"},"modified":"2025-09-07T17:46:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T14:46:21","slug":"two-chinese-intelligence-officers-charged-in-the-united-states-with-bribing-a-government-official-with-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/two-chinese-intelligence-officers-charged-in-the-united-states-with-bribing-a-government-official-with-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Chinese intelligence officers charged in the United States with bribing a government official with Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. attorney’s office filed charges in absentia \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u044a\u044f\u0432\u0438\u043b\u0430<\/a> against two officers of Chinese intelligence for bribing a government official to obstruct justice. The amount was approximately $61,000 in Bitcoin.<\/p>\n

According to the statement, Gochun He and Zhang Wan attempted to recruit an official to steal documents related to \u201cinvestigation and prosecution of a global telecom company\u201d from China.<\/p>\n

In fact, the employee acted as a double agent and was under the control of FBI<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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“This was an egregious attempt by officers of the Chinese intelligence service to shield a China-based company from accountability and to undermine the integrity of our judicial system,” said U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland at a press conference on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

According to the media, the case concerns an investigation into Huawei.<\/p>\n

The Chinese operatives tasked the \u201crecruited\u201d employee with stealing information of interest to them. In October 2021, he sent them via an encrypted messenger a page from what was purportedly an internal prosecutor’s memo bearing the stamp “Secret.” The document discussed a plan to indict and arrest two current employees of the company living in China.<\/p>\n

Gochun He described the document as “what they expected from him,” and it passed authenticity checks. Then the officer paid the \u201cagent\u201d about $41,000 in Bitcoin allegedly on behalf of the pursued company.<\/p>\n

In September 2022, he wired another $20,000 to a U.S. government official in cryptocurrency. According to He, his organization decided to allocate the additional remuneration.<\/p>\n

The suspects are also charged with money laundering. If convicted on both counts, He faces up to 60 years in prison, and Wan up to 20 years.<\/p>\n

Earlier in October in the United States charged<\/a> a California resident with laundering $5.3 million through Bitcoin and illicit drug trafficking. He faces up to 20 years in prison on each count.<\/p>\n

Read ForkLog’s bitcoin news in our Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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