Naturalised US citizen charged with spying for China

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SAN FRANCISCO (REUTERS) - A naturalised US citizen working as a tour guide in the San Francisco area was charged on Monday (Sept 30) with working as an agent of the Chinese government, providing officials there with classified material about US national security, court documents show.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SAN FRANCISCO - A naturalised US citizen working as a tour guide in the San Francisco area was charged on Monday with working as an agent of the Chinese government, providing officials there with classified material about US national security, court documents show.

Peng Xuehua, also known as Edward Peng, was taken into custody on Friday in Hayward, California, and was denied bail during an initial court appearance, federal prosecutors said at a Monday morning news conference. Peng was charged in a 22-page criminal complaint made public on Monday with acting as an agent of the People's Republic of China between 2015 and June 2018.

The criminal complaint accused Peng of being a"courier" for China, flying from his home in the San Francisco area to pick up packages for that government and delivering them to China.

 

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