Chinese researcher arrested in visa fraud case, photo found in army uniform

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Juan-Tang

San Francisco: A Chinese researcher has been jailed in a Northern California prison on charges of not disclosing his relationship with the Chinese military in a visa application and is expected to appear in federal court on Monday. According to Sacramento County Jail records, Juan Tang (37) has been arrested by the US Marshals Service. It is not clear yet whether he has a lawyer who can give a statement on his behalf. The Ministry of Justice on Thursday announced the charges against Tang and three other scientists living in the US, saying they hid their status as a member of the People’s Liberation Army of China. All have been charged with visa fraud.

Tang is the last of the four arrested. Earlier, the Ministry of Justice accused the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco of harboring a fugitive. There was no response to the email or Facebook message made to the Consulate General to get information in this regard. The Ministry of Justice said Tang had lied about his relationship with the military in a visa application he had given in October last year for a plan to work at the University of California, and several months later in an FBI interview. spoke. The agent has found photographs of Tang in which he is in an army uniform and a review of articles in China revealed his relationship with the military.

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