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Three groups of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) operatives sought to interfere with Americans and American residents, including trying to pay money for secret information about charges against a China-based company, U.S. officials said on Oct. 24.
In one case, a group of seven people engaged in a “multi-year campaign of threats and harassment” against a naturalized U.S. citizen to try to make the resident return to China, Garland said.
The campaign in eastern New York involved threatening and harassing the person and his family members, both inside the United States and in China, according to charging documents filed earlier this month and unsealed on Monday.
“Coming back and turning yourself in is the only way out,” the defendants allegedly told the person at one point.
The efforts were part of a CCP program called “Operation Fox Hunt,” which focuses on locating and repatriating alleged fugitives who have fled to other countries.
Two of the seven defendants have been arrested.
