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发信人: ElonMusk ($TSLA (准备亏废）), 信区: Faculty
标 题: 千人计划陈刚被捕 FBI 记者会
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Jan 15 17:14:25 2021, 美东)
FBI Special Agent in Charge Joseph R. Bonavolonta’s Remarks at Press
Conference Announcing Arrest of MIT Professor Gang Chen
FBI Special Agent in Charge Joseph R. Bonavolonta delivered remarks at a
press conference announcing charges against MIT professor Gang Chen in
connection with allegedly failing to disclose contracts, appointments, and
awards from various entities in the People’s Republic of China to the U.S.
Department of Energy. Remarks prepared for delivery.
It has become much too commonplace that the ruling Communist Party of China
thinks it can conduct illegal activity, and bend people here in the United
States to its will, in order to try and surpass our country as the world’s
leading superpower.
Earlier this morning, we arrested Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT
) Professor Gang Chen at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Immediately
after we took Chen into custody, we initiated the execution of three search
warrants: one at his home and two others at MIT.
Our investigation found Chen was working with the Chinese Communist
Government in various capacities dating back to 2012, at our country’s
expense. And the real victims in this case are you—the taxpayers—who we
believe he knowingly and willfully defrauded out of $19 million in federal
grants by exploiting our system to enhance China’s research in
nanotechnology.
In applying for these scarce federal grants, we allege Chen failed to
disclose that he was acting as an “overseas expert” on science and
technology for the Chinese Communist Government—after China’s Consulate
Office in New York asked him to provide expertise and advice—in exchange
for financial compensation and awards.
Through an extensive document review, we found Chen has accepted
approximately $29 million in foreign funding, primarily from entities tied
to the Chinese Communist Government. And through a variety of Chinese talent
plans, Chen received at least $355,000 for his services and expertise;
money which he never disclosed to MIT or the federal government.
We also believe he committed tax fraud by failing to file a foreign bank
account report, disclosing that he had a bank account in China with at least
a $25,000 balance in which he kept money paid to him by various entities in
China, with ties to the Chinese government.
Additionally, while Chen was chair of MIT’s Department of Mechanical
Engineering, and serving as an overseas advisor, we believe he even went as
far as recommending several students to participate in various Chinese
talent programs. And while serving as an advisor to the China Scholarship
Council—he recommended several students to receive the “Chinese Government
Award for Outstanding Students Abroad.”
The cutting-edge research and technologies that are being developed here in
Massachusetts must be carefully protected from our foreign adversaries and
the FBI will continue to do everything it can to safeguard these important
innovations.
To put this threat into perspective, we have now reached the point where the
FBI is opening a new China-related counterintelligence case about every 10
hours. And of the 5,000 active counterintelligence cases the FBI has, nearly
half of them are related to China. Each and every one of our field offices
—including the Boston Division—have active investigations. And what needs
to be made clear is that the Chinese Communist Government doesn’t play by
the same rules of academic integrity and freedom that we do.
We know they use some Chinese students in the U.S. as non-traditional
collectors to steal our intellectual property. We know that through their “
Thousand Talents Plan” and similar programs, they try to entice researchers
at our universities to bring their knowledge to China—even if that means
stealing proprietary information or violating export controls or conflict-of
-interest policies to do so.
We also know they support the establishment of institutes on our campuses
that are more concerned with promoting Communist Party ideology than
independent scholarship. They try to pressure Chinese students to self-
censor their views while studying here, and they use campus proxies to
monitor both U.S. and foreign students and staff. And we know they use
financial donations as leverage, to discourage American universities from
hosting speakers with views the Chinese Communist Government doesn’t like.
But let me be clear: We are not suggesting that all, or even most, Chinese
students, professors, and researchers are somehow up to no good. There is no
question that we benefit greatly from foreign researchers in our academic
institutions. However, some of them are exploiting this collaborative
environment, as illustrated by this case, and it needs to stop.
We want our academic and private sector partners to reach out to us if they
see something that concerns them. We’re going to keep working to build
trusted relationships with them, so that they know—with confidence—that we
’re here to help.
I’d like to thank the agents and analysts from all the respective agencies
standing before you today who worked incredibly hard on this investigation,
as well as U.S. Attorney Lelling and his prosecutors for their continued
partnership and support. This was truly a team effort. | S*******f
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