Singaporean National Pleads Guilty to Acting in the United States as an Illegal Agent of Chinese Intelligence
Jun Wei Yeo, also known as Dickson Yeo,
entered a plea of guilty today to one count of acting within the United States as an illegal agent of a foreign power without first notifying the Attorney General, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 951.
Yeo’s plea
was entered via videoconference before the Honorable Tanya S. Chutkan in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
The announcement
was made by John G. Demers,
The Chinese Government uses an array of duplicity to obtain sensitive information from unsuspecting Americans,” said Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s National Security Division John C. Demers.
Yeo was central to one such scheme,
using career networking sites and a false consulting firm to lure Americans who might be of interest to the Chinese government.
This is yet another example of the Chinese government’s exploitation of the openness of American society.
OPA | Department of Justice