US FBI: Chinese Scientist Couple Indicted: ianchun Chen, Chenyan Wu
-Smuggling mRNA cancer vaccine confidential information-
California, USA
San Diego
Chinese scientist
Lianchun Chen Defendant
Defendant Chenyan Wu
He was charged with “smuggling allegations and false statements of confidential information about mRNA cancer vaccines”.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Scott Szalay I Special Agent
It was revealed in an indictment filed in the Federal Court of Southern California on December 8.
Defendant Chen:
In April of this year, he denied his involvement.
Acquitted FBI agents at his home in San Diego.
“MRNA is not my research specialty”
“I don’t share any confidential information or confidentiality with her husband, her own employer, Company A.”
The Epoch Times
https://www.epochtimes.jp/2021/12/83308.html
Chinese Scientist Lianchun Chen Slipped Cancer Vax Secrets to Hubby Chenyan Wu for His Lab, Feds Allege
A Chinese scientist
living in San Diego and working to develop an mRNA cancer vaccinegave her scientist husband confidential data from her employer so he could “further” his own vaccine research at his lab in China,
a criminal complaint
filed Wednesday in Southern California federal court alleges.Last May,
Chenyan Wu
arrived at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on a flight from Shanghaiwith as many as 1,000 undeclared, improperly packaged, and unlabeled centrifuge tubes containing research samples, the filing states.
Wu’s luggage also held “multiple containers of lab chemicals,” which border officers believed were “potentially hazardous.”
When the FBI interviewed Wu,
he told agents he had been running a cancer research company in China for the past 10 years called TheraMab, according to the complaint.Wu and his wife,
Lianchun Chen,
had a home in San Diego,and Wu explained that he had shut down his Chinese operation to continue his cancer research at a new lab he planned to establish in California.
By that time,
Wu and Chen had been on the feds’ radar for more than a year, according to the complaint against them.December 2019,
the FBI “found a Powerpoint presentation on the cell phone of a Chinese Defendant,who had previously pled guilty to export control violations,” states the complaint against Wu and Chen.
The presentation was in Mandarin.
Once translated,
the cover page of the packet read:‘TheraMab’s mRNA Cancer Vaccine Project,’ presented by Chenyan Wu.
The presentation outlined
TheraMab’s company structure and investment plan and summarized its mRNA research process.
Wu and Chen – DocumentCloud
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21150598-wu-and-chen