(The Blaze)—Amid the Trump administration’s efforts to curb the Chinese Communist Party’s influence in the U.S., the Department of Justice announced the arrest of a CCP agent accused of worldwide computer intrusions related to COVID-19 research.
Xu Zewei, 33, and Zhang Yu, 44, are facing a nine-count indictment for allegedly “hacking and stealing crucial COVID-19 research at the behest of the Chinese government while that same government was simultaneously withholding information about the virus and its origins,” stated Nicholas Ganjei, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas.
Federal authorities alleged that the Ministry of State Security’s Shanghai State Security Bureau directed Xu to perform computer intrusions between February 2020 and June 2021.
Xu allegedly targeted American universities, immunologists, and virologists to obtain information on COVID-19 research related to vaccines, treatment, and testing.
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