Five people in the US acting on behalf of Chinese secret police sought to intimidate Chinese nationals and US critics of Beijing – including a New York congressional candidate and an Olympic figure skater and her father – to silence dissident voices abroad, according to federal prosecutors in New York.
Three criminal complaints from the US Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn allege a series of “transnational repression schemes” from agents of the Chinese government, some spanning several years, including seeking to undermine the candidacy of a Democratic congressional candidate in New York and spying on an artist in Los Angeles.
