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  • Sat. Nov 23rd, 2024

Singaporean pleads guilty in US to working for Chinese intelligence

Singaporean pleads guilty in US to working for Chinese intelligence

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WASHINGTON: A Singaporean pleaded guilty Friday to using his political consultancy in

the United States

as a front to collect information for Chinese intelligence, the US Justice Department announced.

Jun Wei Yeo, also known as Dickson Yeo, entered his plea in federal court in

Washington

to one charge of operating illegally as a foreign agent.

In the plea, 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.”

It said Yeo paid some of those individuals to write

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