The Justice Department charged 2 men as foreign agents operating the outpost at the direction of China’s Ministry of Public Security.
A U.S. citizen had been convicted by a federal jury of acting as an illegal foreign agent. The man opened a police station in Chinatown in Manhattan in 2022 at the direction of the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS). The man claimed to have opened a community center, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation discovered a banner stating, “Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station, New York, USA.” The site was operated under the control and direction of the MPS.
The Justice Department explained, “The MPS is the PRC’s primary domestic law enforcement and intelligence agency. The MPS routinely monitors Chinese political dissidents and others with views adverse to the Chinese government’s sovereignty who live outside the PRC, including in the United States.“
“The MPS has used cooperative contacts both inside the PRC and around the world to influence, threaten, and coerce political dissidents abroad, including in the United States, in an effort to silence them,“ the department continued. “The New York police station was part of a global initiative by the MPS to establish overseas police service stations all over the world. None of the participants in the police station scheme in Chinatown informed the U.S. government that they were helping the PRC government open and operate an undeclared MPS police station on U.S. soil.“
“A police station operating in New York City at the direction of the Chinese government has been exposed, its sinister purpose disrupted, its founder held accountable for blatantly disregarding the law and our country’s sovereignty,” U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella said.
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
- For Acting Attorney General Blanche as he heads the Justice Department.
- For the U.S. attorneys and government prosecutors as they seek to protect the nation’s sovereignty.
- For discernment for Americans called to serve on federal juries as they hear and render decisions on cases.
Sources: Daily Caller, Department of Justice, AP News
