More illegal Chinese police stations may be scattered across the U.S. after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently busted two New York City residents for allegedly operating an illegal Chinese police force in lower Manhattan.
According to a new report by Madrid-based human rights group Safeguard Defenders, another station exists at an undisclosed address in the Big Apple, as well as an outpost in Los Angeles.
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The group published a report last year alleging that the police stations contribute to “resolutely cracking down on all kinds of illegal and criminal activities involving overseas Chinese.”
“We found at least four listed in the US by PRC [People’s Republic of China] public security authorities, plus flagged an additional four overseas Chinese service centers in the US set up by the UFWD networks responsible for manning the stations,” a spokeswoman for Safeguard Defenders told The New York Post on Tuesday.
UFWD is an acronym for United Front Work Department, a Chinese government agency that controls overseas ethnic and religious affairs.
The group also claims that Democratic Mayor Eric Adams is linked to UFWD. Last year, the department held its annual gala dinner, featuring Adams as the guest of honor — an event that was not disclosed on the mayor’s official agenda.
“These latest revelations show Mayor Adams is failing to fundamentally ensure the people of New York City and the world that their safety and wellbeing are firmly rooted in the laws of the United States of America, not the Communist Party of China,” said Tom Anderson, director of the Government Integrity Project at the National Legal and Policy Center.
This comes after 61-year-old Harry Lu Jianwang and 59-year-old Chen Jinping were charged with conspiring to act as agents of the People’s Republic of China as well as obstructing justice by destroying evidence of their communications with a Chinese official
The police station, which was located in an office building in Chinatown, was the first of its kind established in the U.S. Jianwang and Jinping are both accused of working together under the MPS official’s control and direction to operate the clandestine police station.
