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A secret Chinese police station run by the Chinese Communist regime in New York has been shut down following a raid by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The America ChangLe Association, which operated in Manhattan, New York, was raided by the FBI last fall. The organization’s leader, Lu Jianshun, aka Jimmy Lu, was questioned about the suspicious office on the third floor, News 18 reported.
The Daily Mail reported that the Chinese branch was located on the third floor of a building that also housed an engineering firm, an acupuncturist and an accounting firm.
The third floor was a secret Chinese police station staffed by “illegal cops” who tracked down Chinese who were going against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the US.
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In an email to The Epoch Times, the FBI confirmed that the undercover police station had been closed.
“The FBI has confirmed that an ‘overseas police station’ in New York linked to Fuzhou has been closed,” a State Department spokesman said in an email.
“We are still concerned about the PRC [People’s Republic of China] transnational repression efforts around the world and also coordinate with allies and partners on this issue.”
Several news outlets have reported that there are currently a hundred similar police stations abroad in countries such as Japan, Italy, France, Britain, Germany, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
“We are aware of reports of alleged ‘overseas police stations,'” the agency said.
“We take this matter very seriously. The establishment of so-called overseas police stations without the invitation or approval of the country in which they operate raises serious questions of respect for the sovereignty of that country.”
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Chinese authorities say the facilities, which operate in 53 countries, help Chinese immigrants in foreign countries with tasks that would normally be handled by a consulate, such as renewing driver’s licenses and visas.
However, the stations were linked to the Working Department of the CCP United Front, an agency that works to promote the regime’s interests abroad by spreading propaganda, conducting foreign influence operations, suppressing dissident movements, gathering intelligence and facilitating the transfer of technology to Communist China. .
Because of this, many nations have expressed concern that the facilities pose a threat to national security and a violation of sovereignty.
Irish, Canadian and Dutch officials have called on China to halt similar police operations in their countries. Likewise, FBI Director Christopher Wray characterized them as a violation of US sovereignty.
Gateway Pundit reported last year that an American citizen and four Chinese intelligence officials were accused of acting as China’s secret police to harass, stalk and spy on American residents critical of China.
“According to court documents, Wang Shujun, 73, of Queens, New York; Feng He, aka Boss He, from Guangdong; Jie Ji, from Qingdao; Ming Li, aka Elder Tang and Little Li, from Guangdong; and Keqing Lu aka Boss Lu, of Qingdao, allegedly engaged in espionage and a transnational scheme of repression in the United States and abroad,” the DOJ said.
Shujun Wang was also arrested in March 2022 and charged with acting as an agent of the PRC government, criminal use of identification, and making materially false statements regarding his participation in a transnational scheme of repression orchestrated by the MSS.