The UCLA researcher was allegedly seen throwing a damaged hard drive into a dumpster. Photo: Shutterstock
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
加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校的中国公民和研究员
因破坏联邦调查局销毁证据的联邦指控而被捕
在被观察到他将损坏的硬盘扔进公寓外的垃圾箱后，司法部今天宣布。
29岁的阿罕布拉的关磊
于今天下午在美国地方法院初次出庭时因一次公开的刑事指控而被捕。
刑事指控
关（Juan）持J-1非移民签证在美国，于7月25日将损坏的硬盘驱动器扔进他住所附近的垃圾箱。
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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