A federal jury in Chicago convicted a Chinese national and former army reservist acting within the United States as an illegal agent of the Chinese regime.
Ji Chaoqun, 31, was found guilty on three counts of spy-related charges, including acting as an unregistered foreign agent of China and making a material false statement to the U.S. Army, according to a statement released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sept. 26.
Recruited by China’s Spy Agency
Ji came to the United States on a student F1 visa in 2013. He studied electrical engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
In 2016, Ji enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserves as an E4 specialist under the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest program, “which authorized the U.S. armed forces to recruit certain legal aliens whose skills are considered vital to the national interest,” according to the DOJ statement….