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U.S. authorities have arrested and charged an MIT professor with accepting foreign money, much of it from China, and not disclosing it.
Gang Chen was arrested Thursday at his home and charged with wire fraud, failing to file a foreign bank account report and making a false statement in a tax return, the Department of Justice said in a news release.
Chen worked as director of the MIT Pappalardo Micro/Nano Engineering Laboratory and director of the Solid-State Solar Thermal Energy Conversion Center.
Since 2013, Chen’s research has been funded by more than $19 million in federal grants, the DOJ said. During that same time, he reportedly received approximately $29 million of foreign funding, including $19 million from the PRC’s Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech).
Federal authorities arrested a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Thursday at his home in Cambridge for allegedly failing to report his ties to the Chinese government. Gang Chen, the Director of the MIT Pappalardo Micro/Nano Engineering Laboratory and Director of the Solid-State Solar Thermal Energy Conversion Center, faces charges of wire fraud, making false statements to a government agency, and failing to file a foreign bank.
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