The trial of a Chinese American man charged with helping China’s communist regime track down dissidents from an overseas police station in New York starts on May 6.
Lu Jianwang, 64, former president of the American ChangLe Association, allegedly operated an overseas police service station in Manhattan’s Chinatown on behalf of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security. The FBI raided the office in October 2022.
According to court documents, in January 2022, Lu attended a ceremony in Fuzhou, China, at which the Ministry of Public Security officially launched an effort to establish overseas police stations worldwide.
On his return to the United States, Lu allegedly helped found the illegal overseas police station in mid-February 2022. The center assisted a Chinese police official in locating a person of interest—a California pro-democracy advocate who had served as an adviser to a 2022 congressional candidate from New York state, the federal complaint states….
Trial Starts for NYC Resident Who Allegedly Headed Illegal Chinese Police Station
