Mon Oct 24, 2022 – 5:16 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray held a joint news conference Monday to announce charges in three separate cases against Chinese officials accused of criminal activity while working on behalf of the government of the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC).
In one instance, two PRC intelligence officers are charged with attempting to obstruct, influence, and impede criminal prosecution of PRC-based telecommunications giant Huawei in 2019. The defendants directed an employee of a U.S. government law enforcement agency to steal confidential information, including the prosecutors’ strategy memo, confidential information concerning witnesses, and trial evidence in the case against the company.
“This was an egregious attempt by PRC intelligence officers to shield a PRC-based company from accountability and to undermine the integrity of our judicial system,” Garland said.
In the second case, four individuals, including three PRC intelligence officers, are charged with conspiring to act in the U.S. as illegal agents on behalf of a foreign government.
“The indictment alleges that between 2008 and 2018, the defendants used the cover of a purported academic institute to target, co-opt, and direct individuals in the United
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