The Chinese regime turned a former U.S. hip hop artist into one of its agents and had him lobby the FBI to repatriate a Chinese dissident in the United States, according to U.S. prosecutors. Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, 48, a former member of the 1990s hip hop group Fugees, engaged in the lobbying campaign under the order of a Malaysian businessman named Low Taek Jho, also known as Jho Low, and an unnamed vice minister of China’s public security, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a press release on June 11. Michel, Low, the Chinese minister, and some representatives of the Chinese regime, held a meeting with FBI agents in 2017, according to a recently unsealed indictment. During the meeting, they lobbied the FBI to deport the Chinese dissident and asked for the dissident’s whereabouts and his security arrangements. The court document did not disclose the name of the dissident …
Beijing Enlisted an American Hip Hop Artist to Help Locate Chinese Dissident, US Prosecutors Say
June 16, 2021
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