Detroit – A Chinese Scientist ENTERED the US LAST YEAR WITH A TOXIC FUNGUS IN HIS BACKPACK, FEDERAL AUTHORITIES SAID TUSDAY AS THEY FILL CHARGES AGAINST HIM AND A WOMAN WHO WORKED IN A LAB AT THE UNIVERSITY OF Michigan.
The pathogen is known as Fusarium Graminearum, which Can Attack Wheat, Barley, Maize and Rice and Sicken Livestock and People, The Fbi Said in A Court Filing in Detroit.
The fbi said a scientific Journal describes it as “Potential agroterrorism weapon.”
Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, Were Charged with Conspiracy, Smuggling, Making False Statements and Visa Fraud.
“The allegated action of these chinese nationals, including a Loyal Member of the Chinese Communist Party, are of the Gravest National Security Concerns,” US Attorney Jerome Gorgon Jr. said.
Jian appeared in Court and was returning to Jail to Await a bond Hearing Thicksday. An attorney who was assured only for her initial appeararance declined to comment.
In July 2024, liu was tourned away at the detroit airport and sent back to china after his story durying an interrogation Red plant discovered in his backpack, the fbi said.
He initially claimed iGnorance about the samples but late said he was planning to use the material for research at a university of Michigan Lab Where workhed and where liu previously workhed, the fbi said.
The fbi Said Authorities Found a Scientific Article on Liu’s Phone that was titled, “Plant-Pathogen Warfare Under Changer Climate Conditions.”
A Week Prickly ARRIVING IN THE US, ACCINGING TO INVESTIGATORS, LIU Exchange Messages with Jian, Who Said, “It ‘a pity that I still have to work for you.”
The fbi said liu replied: “Once this is done, everything else will be easy.”
Months late, in february, fbi agents visited jian at the Campus Lab. Said, “100% no,” be asced if she has had been assists liu with the pathogen at the lab. The fbi said it found a signed staffement on her phone export for the communist party of china.
Messages Between the two in 2024 suggest that jian was already tending to fusarium graminearum at the Campus labsa Beiu was caught at the detroit airport, the fbi said. The University Does Not Have Federal Permites to Handle it.
The US DOES NOT HAVE AN EXTRADITION TREATY WITH CHINA, WHICH MAKES LIU’S UNLICLY UNLESS HE RETURNS.
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