Reports: Fugitive Chinese military researcher arrested in San Francisco after hiding in Chinese consulate
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A member of the Chinese military who was posing as a researcher at the University of California – Davis has been taken into U.S. custody on Friday after hiding in a Chinese consulate, Bloomberg reported.
CNN’s Josh Rogin also said the Chinese researcher had left the San Francisco consulate and was arrested by law enforcement, according to a senior Justice Department official.
Axios first reported the Chinese military researcher Tang Juan, a researcher with China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), had been interviewed by the FBI on June 20. Court documents indicated that Tang fled to the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco after the FBI interview and remained there, according to the FBI.
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Tang was charged with visa fraud on June 26 but fled before she could be detained.
Tang had told investigators she was not affiliated with the PLA, however, they determined she was active in the Chinese military and working at the PLA’s Air Force Military Medical University (FMMU) in China.
Investigators had uncovered multiple photographs of her in a uniform affiliated with the PLA’s civilian cadre.
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