A Chinese spy who was enlisted in the United States Army was sentenced to eight years in federal prison after being convicted last year.
According to the reports, the Chinese spy was on an F-1 Visa and was enlisted in the US Army when the controversy took place, putting the country’s national security at risk.
The spy was identified as 31-year old Ji Chaoqun who is a Chinese national who arrived in the U.S. on a student visa.
In the announcement released by the US Department of Justice, Ji was sentenced in federal prison this week for spying for China.
Moreover, in an exclusive report published by Breitbart, it was revealed that “Chaoqun was convicted last year on one count of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government, one count of acting as an agent of the People’s Republic of China, and one count of making false statements to the U.S. Army. Chaoqun was arrested and charged in 2018 after having arrived in the U.S. on an F-1 student visa to study electrical engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois.”
A Chinese spy on an F-1 student visa, who enlisted in the United States Army, has been sentenced in federal court after being convicted last year. https://t.co/ngok5l24IF— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) January 28, 2023
During the trial, evidence was also presented, showing how Chaoqun worked at the direction of high-ranking intelligence officers at the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security (JSSD), which is a Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of State Security regional department while he was in the United States.
“Chaoqun was ordered by Ministry of State Security executive Xu Yanjun to provide intelligence officers with background information on Chinese citizens living in the U.S. who could be recruited to work for the JSSD while they worked for U.S. defense contractors. The goal of the espionage operation was to provide high-ranking Chinese officials with critical aerospace and satellite technologies being developed in the U.S.” Breitbart News added.
While Chaoqun was working for the Chinese government in 2016, he also got himself enlisted in the US Army as an E4 Specialist under the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI) program.
However, despite clear evidence that Chaoqun was working for China, the Chinese spy denied in his application that he was working for a foreign government in the past seven years.
Chaoqun also reportedly failed to disclose his relationship with high-ranking Chinese intelligence officers.
