A Chinese intelligence officer convicted of conspiring and attempting to steal sensitive trade secrets from a U.S. company has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
The Justice Department had asked that, 42, get 25 years behind bars for his"very extensive" years-long scheme to steal secrets from American aviation companies.
He said that the sentence handed down by U.S. District Judge Timothy Black “demonstrates the seriousness of those crimes and the Justice Department’s determination to investigate and prosecute efforts by the Chinese government, or any foreign power, to threaten our economic and national security.” "Xu targeted multiple employees at multiple international aviation companies over multiple years. He used aliases, front companies, and false documents. He leveraged human intelligence sources, as well as cyber techniques," prosecutors said in their, adding that he had recruited and duped assets,"namely ethnic Chinese insiders at Western aviation firms," into helping him.
He was convicted November of last year of conspiracy to commit economic espionage, conspiracy to commit trade secret theft, attempted economic espionage and attempted trade secret theft.FBI Director Chris Wray cited Xu's case in an interview with NBC News earlier this year while describing the scope of China's espionage activities.
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