The Department of Justice announced on Monday that two people were arrested on allegations they participated in the operation of an illegal police station for the Chinese government in New York City.
Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping have been charged with conspiring to act as Chinese government agents, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York said. Both destroyed evidence of their communications with the Chinese national police when they learned about the investigation into their activity, according to Breon Peace, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, which he described as obstruction of justice.
Peace acknowledged that it"was providing some government services, like helping Chinese citizens renew their Chinese driver's licenses. More troubling, though, is the fact that the secret police station appears to have had a more sinister use on at least one occasion. An official with the Chinese National Police directed one of the defendants, a U.S. citizen who worked at the secret police station, to help locate a pro-democracy activist of Chinese descent living in California.
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