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Feds charge two with running covert ‘police station’ for China to chase down dissidents in NYC

Two men were accused Monday of running a secret police station in Manhattan on behalf of the Chinese government – arrests that were part of a sweeping federal crackdown on Beijing’s influence campaign in the US.

“Harry” Lu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59, were each charged in Brooklyn federal court with conspiring to act as agents of China’s government and obstruction of justice for opening the covert outpost in Manhattan’s Chinatown in early 2022.

Lu, of the Bronx, allegedly helped security officials from the authoritarian nation locate dissidents who were living in the US, according to a criminal complaint filed against the pair.

Chinese officials also requested he participate in demonstrations against the Falun Gong, a religious movement subject to crackdown across the globe by the Chinese Communist Party.

“This prosecution reveals the Chinese government’s flagrant violation of our nation’s sovereignty by establishing a secret police station in the middle of New York City,” US Attorney Breon Peace said in a statement.

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