WASHINGTON: The FBI has arrested three Chinesenationals for
visa fraud
, while a fourth remains a fugitive staying at China’s consulate in
San Francisco
, the US Justice Department said on Thursday, adding that the four are believed to have been members of the military posing as researchers.
The FBI has interviewed visa holders in more than 25 US cities suspected of hiding their Chinese military memberships, the Justice Department said on Thursday, as part of what experts called the biggest known crackdown on the theft of US know-how in more than 40 years of Sino-US relations.
The Justice Department announcement likely will fuel tensions between the world’s