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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