NYPD cop charged with serving as secret agent of Chinese governmentBy Bruce Golding
September 21, 2020 | 2:55pm
An NYPD cop and US Army reservist was charged Monday with secretly serving as a spy for the Chinese government.
Baimadajie Angwang, who works a community affairs officer in the 111th Precinct in Queens, allegedly began acting on behalf of the People’s Republic of China in May 2018 after being recruited by an unidentified “handler†stationed in the Chinese consulate in Manhattan, according to a complaint unsealed in Brooklyn federal court.
Angwang, 33, allegedly “served as an intelligence asset†whose duties included gathering information on potential opponents of the Chinese government, including members of “religious and ethnic minorities.â€
His handler, identified only as “PRC Official-2,†is believed to have been assigned to a division of the Chinese United Front Work Department that’s responsible for “neutralizing sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of the PRC,†court papers say. ...
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