A Chinese secret police station run by the Communist Chinese regime in New York has been shut down following a raid by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The America Changle Association, operating in Manhattan, New York, was raided by the FBI last fall. News18 reported that the leader of the organization, Lu Jianshun, aka Jimmy Lu, was questioned about the suspect’s office on the third floor.
The Daily Mail reported that there is a Chinese outpost on the third floor of the building, which houses an engineering firm, an acupuncturist and an accounting firm.
The third floor was a secret Chinese police station staffed by “illegal police” who monitored Chinese people who went against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the US.
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In an email to The Epoch Times, the FBI confirmed that the undercover police station had been closed.
“The FBI has confirmed that the ‘overseas police station’ in New York associated with Fuzhou has been closed,” a State Department spokesperson said in an email.
“We continue to be concerned about the PRC [People’s Republic of China] International repression efforts around the world and are also coordinating with allies and partners on this issue.
Several news outlets have reported that there are currently over a hundred similar overseas police stations in Japan, Italy, France, Britain, Germany, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
“We are aware of reports regarding alleged PRC ‘overseas police stations’,” the agency said.
“We take this issue very seriously. Establishing police stations overseas without the invitation or approval of the country in which they are operating raises serious issues of respect for that country’s sovereignty.
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Chinese officials maintain that the facilities, which operate in 53 countries, help Chinese expatriates in foreign countries with tasks normally handled by consulates, such as renewing driver’s licenses and visas.
However, the centers are linked to the CCP’s United Front Work Department, an organization that works to advance the regime’s interests abroad by spreading propaganda, conducting foreign influence operations, suppressing dissident movements, gathering intelligence, and facilitating the transfer of technology to Communist China. .
As such, many countries have expressed concern that the facilities are a threat to national security and a violation of sovereignty.
Irish, Canadian and Dutch officials have called on China to end similar police operations in their countries. Accordingly, FBI Director Christopher Wray characterized them as a violation of US sovereignty.
Gateway Pundit reported last year that a US citizen and four Chinese intel officials were accused of acting as China’s secret police to harass, stalk and spy on US residents critical of China.
“According to court records, Wang Shujun, 73, of Queens, New York; Guangdong’s Feng He, aka Boss He; Jie Ji of Qingdao; Ming Li, aka Elder Tang and Little Li, Guangdong; and Keqing Lu, aka Boss Lu, of Qingdao, allegedly participated in espionage and domestic repression schemes in the United States and abroad,” the DOJ announced.
Shujun Wang was also arrested in March 2022 and charged with acting as an agent of the PRC government, criminal use of identification methods, and making materially false statements regarding his participation in a transnational repression scheme organized by the MSS.