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发帖数: 1 | 1 Missouri City, Houston men caught up in alleged espionage scheme involving
Chinese company
Published 11:13 am, Friday, April 27, 2018
WASHINGTON - Several Texas residents have been caught up in an alleged
espionage scheme, including residents of Missouri City and the greater
Houston area.
Two businessmen, including one who is a Chinese national, have been indicted
on charges alleging that they conspired to commit economic espionage and
steal trade secrets from a business in the United States on behalf of a
company in China that was engaged in manufacturing buoyancy materials for
military and civilian uses.
The charges were announced Friday by Assistant Attorney General for National
Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie
K. Liu, Assistant Director Bill Priestap of the FBI’s Counterintelligence
Division, Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI’s Houston
Field Office, and Chief Don Fort of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal
Investigation (IRS-CI).
Shan Shi, 53, a U.S. citizen from Houston, and Gang Liu, 32, a Chinese
national, were among six individuals named in a superseding indictment
returned on April 26, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia. All six individuals initially were indicted in June 2017 on a
charge of conspiracy to commit theft of trade secrets. The superseding
indictment includes that charge and adds the conspiracy to commit economic
espionage count against Shi and Liu, as well as a federal money laundering
conspiracy count against Shi. CBM-Future New Material Science and Technology
Co. Ltd. (CBMF), a Chinese company based in Taizhou, and its Houston-based
subsidiary, CBM International, Inc. (CBMI), have also been indicted on all
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发帖数: 1 | 2 美国有人权， 不要怕：
An indictment is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed a
violation of criminal law and is not evidence of guilt. Every defendant is
presumed innocent until, and unless, proven guilty.
The maximum statutory penalty for conspiracy to commit economic espionage is
15 years of incarceration. The maximum for conspiracy to commit theft of
trade secrets is 10 years, and the maximum for conspiracy to commit money
laundering is 20 years. The charges also carry potential financial penalties
. The maximum statutory sentence is prescribed by Congress and is provided
here for informational purposes. If convicted of any offense, a defendant’s
sentence will be determined by the court based on the advisory Sentencing
Guidelines and other statutory factors.
The case is being investigated by the FBI’s Houston Field Office, Commerce
’s BIS Office of Export Enforcement, and the IRS-CI.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jeffrey Pearlman,
Zia Faruqui, and Michael Romano of the District of Columbia, and Trial
Attorney David Recker of the National Security Division’s
Counterintelligence and Export Control Section. |
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