Australia to extradite Marine vet who allegedly trained Chinese pilots
By Irene Loewenson
Dec 29, 2022
Daniel Duggan, a former Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier pilot, has been charged with training Chinese military pilots. (LCpl. Mackenzie Gibson/Marine Corps)
Australia approved a U.S. request to extradite a Marine veteran who has been charged with training Chinese military pilots, according to a Australian Attorney-General statement reported Thursday by Reuters.
Australian police arrested Daniel Edmund Duggan in October on what were then undisclosed charges. A 2017 indictment unsealed on Dec. 9 charged Duggan, who served as a pilot in the U.S. Marine Corps, with training Chinese nationals to fly fighter jets beginning in 2010 or earlier.
In exchange for the training, the indictment alleges that Duggan received compensation from “a business firm based in the PRC (People’s Republic of China) that acquired military training, equipment and technical data for the PRC government and military.”
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