Lu Jianwang, Operating Undeclared Police Station, New York 2024
Two Individuals Arrested for Operating Undeclared Police Station of the Chinese Government in Chinatown in Manhattan
Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping were taken into custody earlier today at their homes in New York City. The defendants' initial appearances are scheduled for this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge James R. Cho.
Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Matthew G. Olsen, Assistant Attorney General, and Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge, FBI, New York Field Office, announced the arrests and charges.
According to the complaint, Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping are charged with conspiring to act as agents of the PRC government as well as obstructing justice by destroying evidence of their communications with an MPS official.
The defendants worked together to establish the first known overseas police station in the United States on behalf of the Fuzhou branch of the MPS. The police station was located in an office building in Manhattan's Chinatown and operated from early 2022 until it closed in the fall of 2022.
Lu Jianwang had a longstanding relationship of trust with PRC law enforcement, including the MPS, dating back to 2015. He was directed to assist the PRC government's repressive activities on U.S. soil, including helping locate a Chinese dissident living in the United States.
Lu Jianwang, 51, is charged with conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign government and obstruction of justice. Chen Jinping, 46, is also charged with conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign government and obstruction of justice. They were arrested on May 29, 2024.
Key Facts
- State: New York
- Category: Public Corruption
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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