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Edward Helmore

New York man pleads guilty to running Chinese police station in Manhattan

A sketch of a man in court.
Chen Jinping, 60, pleaded guilty on Wednesday. Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

A New York man has pleaded guilty to running an undeclared police station for the Chinese government in lower Manhattan, more than a year after the US justice department unveiled efforts aimed at disrupting Beijing’s efforts to locate and suppress Chinese American pro-democracy activists.

Chen Jinping, 60, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to act as an agent of the government of the People’s Republic of China, in connection with opening and operating an overseas police station for the PRC’s ministry of public security, or MPS.

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