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US state department official charged with accepting bribes from Chinese spies
Source: The Guardian
US state department official charged with accepting bribes from Chinese spies
Candace Claiborne faces prison time for lying to FBI about
receiving thousands of dollars in gifts and cash in exchange
for information she claims was ‘unclassified
Jon Swaine
Wednesday 29 March 2017 23.46 BST
A US state department official has been arrested and charged in a federal court after allegedly accepting tens of thousands of dollars worth of payments and gifts from Chinese spies in return for information.
Candace Claiborne appeared in court in Washington DC on Wednesday charged with lying to the FBI and concealing frequent contacts with two Chinese intelligence officials over several years.
Claiborne, a 60-year-old administrative official with a top secret security clearance, is accused of receiving an Apple laptop, an iPhone and thousands of dollars in cash from the Chinese officials, despite privately acknowledging that they were “spies”.
An unidentified relative of Claiborne also allegedly received gifts and benefits from the Chinese officials under the scheme, and was even protected from a police investigation when he allegedly “committed a serious crime” while studying in China in August 2013.
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Candace Claiborne faces prison time for lying to FBI about
receiving thousands of dollars in gifts and cash in exchange
for information she claims was ‘unclassified
Jon Swaine
Wednesday 29 March 2017 23.46 BST
A US state department official has been arrested and charged in a federal court after allegedly accepting tens of thousands of dollars worth of payments and gifts from Chinese spies in return for information.
Candace Claiborne appeared in court in Washington DC on Wednesday charged with lying to the FBI and concealing frequent contacts with two Chinese intelligence officials over several years.
Claiborne, a 60-year-old administrative official with a top secret security clearance, is accused of receiving an Apple laptop, an iPhone and thousands of dollars in cash from the Chinese officials, despite privately acknowledging that they were “spies”.
An unidentified relative of Claiborne also allegedly received gifts and benefits from the Chinese officials under the scheme, and was even protected from a police investigation when he allegedly “committed a serious crime” while studying in China in August 2013.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/29/us-state-department-bribes-china-spies-candace-claiborne
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