Baimadajie Angwang, a 33-year-old community affairs liasion for the New York City Police Department (NYPD), has been arrested by federal authorities after allegedly carrying out work as a Chinese government agent for six years.
The criminal complaint, filed on Monday in the Eastern District of New York, claimed that, since August 2014, Angwang “did knowingly act in the United States as an agent of a foreign government, to wit: the People’s Republic of China, without prior notification to the Attorney General of the United States, as required by law.”
Authorities claim the 33-year-old also “spotted and assessed potential ethnic Tibetan intelligence sources in the New York metropolitan area and beyond, and … used his official position in the NYPD to provide Consulate officials access to senior NYPD officials through invitations to official NYPD events.”
The Department of Justice claimed in a September 2020 court filing that Baimadajie Angwang (far left) did “knowingly act in the United States as an agent of a foreign government, to wit: the People’s Republic of China, without prior notification to the Attorney General of the United States, as required by law.”
In addition to his role with the NYPD’s 111th Precinct in the NYC borough of Queens, Angwang concurrently serves as a civil affairs specialist in the US Army Reserve.
The NYPD officer now faces a slew of charges relating to wire fraud, acting as a foreign agent, obstruction of an official proceeding and making false statements.
Federal prosecutors have requested that Angwang be detained without bond, as he “presents a serious risk of flight,” CNBC reported.
“From the earliest stages of this investigation, the NYPD’s Intelligence and Internal Affairs bureaus worked closely with the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division to make sure this individual would be brought to justice.”
If convicted of all charges, the 33-year-old faces a maximum sentence of 55 years in prison.
Sourse: sputniknews.com
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