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Prosecutors said the defendants established a secret police station under the direction of China's Ministry of Public Security in a Manhattan office building.
It was operating out of Manhattan's Chinatown, DOJ officials said.
The two helped set up a covert police station in lower Manhattan for China's Ministry of Public Security.
The US Department of Justice ramps up probes into what it calls 'transnational repression' by US adversaries such as China and Iran to intimidate political opponents living in the United States
The arrests of Harry Lu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59, are the first anywhere over a suspected campaign by China to establish surreptitious police posts in countries around the world, said Breon Peace, the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn