Singaporean Dickson Yeo jailed for 14 months in US for spying for China

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WASHINGTON: A Singaporean academic who recruited US officials to provide classified political and defense information to China was sentenced to 14 ...

Yeo admitted to working between 2015 and 2019 for Chinese intelligence to spot and assess Americans with access to valuable non-public information, including US military and government employees with high-level security clearances.

In a statement of facts submitted to the court and signed by Yeo, he admitted he was fully aware he was working for Chinese intelligence, had met agents in China dozens of times and was given special treatment when he travelled to China. Yeo was also directed by Chinese intelligence to open up a fake consultancy in the US and post job listings for the company on an online job-search website.

Yeo gave his Chinese handlers the resumes that he thought they would find interesting, according to the court documents.

 

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