CHINA-US: SENIOR CHINESE INTELLIGENCE OFFICER CONVICTED AFTER EXTRADITION IN 2018 FOR TRYING TO STEAL DEFENCE SECRETS FROM GENERAL ELECTRIC
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A senior Chinese intelligence officer of China's Ministry of State Security, Xu Yanjun was
convicted by an American Federal jury in Ohio of trying to steal secrets from General Electric.
He was accused of asking a GE Aviation employee who had travelled to China to help him
obtain proprietary information in Washington. This is the first time a Ministry of State Security
official was extradited to the US for trial. Xu Yanjun was arrested in Belgium in 2018 after
being lured there by US agents who were tracking his efforts to obtain aviation-related
technology, in particular a composite aircraft engine fan that is made exclusively by GE
Aviation.
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