Chinese spy extradited to U.S. on economic espionage charges

A Chinese intelligence official has been extradited to the United States to face charges of economic espionage, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday. Yanjun Xu, a Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) official, is accused of trying to steal trade secrets from multiple American aerospace and aviation companies. For more than four years, beginning in December 2013, Xu targeted leading aviation companies, including GE Aviation, according to DOJ. He paid experts working at these companies to travel to China “under the guise of asking them to deliver a university presentation,” the department said. Xu, who is also known as Zhang Hui or Qu Hui, was arrested in Belgium in April, and extradited to the United States on Tuesday, DOJ said. He will face trial in a federal court in Cincinnati. Analysts and U.S. officials say the Xu case is further evidence that, after an apparent lull following a 2015 U.S.-China agreement […]

The post Chinese spy extradited to U.S. on economic espionage charges appeared first on Cyberscoop.

Continue reading Chinese spy extradited to U.S. on economic espionage charges