Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have asked a judge to dismiss criminal charges against an NYPD officer charged with being a Chinese agent.
NYPD logo on the sleeve of a New York City policeman during the semifinals of the Big East Basketball Tournament between the""n"" and the Connecticut Huskies at Madison Square Garden, March 11, 2022 in New York City.
The charges were based, in part, on dozens of recorded phone calls between Angwang and these officials that prosecutors said were meant to report on the activities of Tibetans in the New York area, assess potential intelligence sources and introduce the Chinese consular officials to senior NYPD officials.
Angwang is an ethnic Tibetan who sought asylum in the United States on the basis he had been arrested and tortured in China partly due to this ethnicity.
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