U.S. Citizen Sentenced for Spying on Behalf of China’s Intelligence Agency
A 59-year-old U.S. national who came from the People's Republic of China (PRC) was given a four-year prison sentence for communicating private information about his company with China's main civilian intelligence agency and plotting to work as a spy for the nation.
According to reports, as early as August 2012, Ping Li, 59, of Wesley Chapel, Florida, was a cooperating contact for the Ministry of State Security (MSS), working at their request to gather material relevant to the Chinese government. Li worked for the telecom behemoth Verizon before moving on to Infosys, a provider of IT services.
Li has been sentenced to four years in prison, three years of supervised release read more about U.S. Citizen Sentenced for Spying on Behalf of China's Intelligence Agency.
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