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U.S. charges two Homeland Security workers in Chinese spying scheme

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew Olsen delivers remarks on U.S. Department of Justice policy, announcing the end of a program focused on fighting Chinese espionage and intellectual property theft, during a National Security Institute event at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, U.S. February 23, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

U.S. prosecutors charged two men tied to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as part of what federal law enforcement officials have called a "transnational repression scheme" on behalf of the Chinese government to spy on and harass dissidents living in the United States.

The two charged were Craig Miller, who has worked as a DHS deportation officer for 15 years in Minnesota, and Derrick Taylor, a retired DHS law enforcement agent now working as a private investigator in California, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.

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