An officer at the New York Police Department has been charged with spying for China.
Baimadajie Angwang, an ethnic Tibetan and naturalised US citizen, worked as a community liaison officer in Queens but moonlighted as an agent for Chinese intelligence according to a charge filed at a Brooklyn federal court, the Guardian reports.
It is understood the 33 year old’s job was to identify potential threats to China in the New York area, and allegedly reported on the city’s Chinese community since 2014. He also used his status as an officer to give consulate officials access to senior NYPD officers.
He allegedly told a Chinese handler that he wanted promotion in the police force to help ‘bring glory to China’. Angwang supposedly came to the US from China on asylum grounds, saying he’d been persecuted at home for his Tibetan ethnicity.
This case is the latest in a growing concern about Chinese espionage operations in the United States. Recently thousands of Chinese students had their Visas revoked in a crackdown on spies, and a former CIA officer was charged with being a double agent for China recently.
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