NEW YORK — An New York Police Department officer accused of spying on the city’s Tibetan communities for the Chinese government was “innocent from the very beginning,” his lawyer said Thursday after a judge dismissed the charges in the case.
Baimadajie Angwang, 36, walked out of court an innocent man after federal prosecutors said new evidence surfaced in their investigation. The details of that new evidence were not revealed in court, because they involved classified information.
“Mr. Angwang asked me to emphasize today that he has not and he has never been an agent for the People’s Republic of China. Nor has he entered into any type of agreement with the government of our country to induce them to dismiss the indictment,” his lawyer, John Carman, told reporters outside the federal courthouse in Brooklyn.
