The UCLA researcher was allegedly seen throwing a damaged hard drive into a dumpster. Photo: Shutterstock
米司法省：証拠隠滅で中国人Guan Leiを逮捕：U.S. software（動画）：
Chinese Charged with Destroying Hard Drive During FBI Investigation ：
联邦调查局调查可能向中国转移敏感软件的过程中，中国人被控销毁硬盘
米司法省：
中国人でカリフォルニア大学ロサンゼルス校の研究者が、逮捕されました。
FBIの調査を妨害し、証拠を隠滅の容疑。
司法省が、「ハードドライブを、アパートの外のゴミ箱に、捨てたことを確認したこと」を本日発表しました。
Guan Lei, 29：
Guan（米国でJ-1非移民ビザを取得）は、7月25日、自身のハードドライブを壊し、自宅近くのゴミ箱に廃棄したとのこと。
The FBI
recovered the damaged hard drive after Guan was not allowed to board a flight to China and after Guan refused the FBI’s request to examine his computer.The affidavit in support of the complaint notes
that the internal hard drive “was irreparably damaged and that all previous data associated with the hard drive appears to have been removed deliberately and by force.”
According to the complaint, Guan
is being investigated for possibly transferring sensitive U.S. software or technical data to China’s National University of Defense Technology (NUDT)
and falsely denying his association with the Chinese military – the People’s Liberation Army – in connection with his 2018 visa application and in interviews with federal law enforcement.
Guan later admitted that he had participated in military training and wore military uniforms while at NUDT.
One of Guan’s NUDT faculty advisors in China was also a lieutenant general in the PLA who developed computers used by the PLA General Staff Department, the PLA General Armament Department, Air Force, military weather forecasts, and nuclear technology.
NUDT is “suspected of procuring U.S.-origin items to develop supercomputers with nuclear explosive applications” and has been placed on the Department of Commerce’s Entity List for nuclear nonproliferation reasons, according to the affidavit.
In addition to destroying the hard drive, the complaint alleges
that Guan concealed digital storage devices from investigators and falsely told federal officials that he had not had any contact with the Chinese consulate during his nearly two-year stay in the U.S.
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