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- Status
- Wanted
- Agency
- FBI
- Notice
- FBI Wanted
- Issued
- 2022
- Nationality
- Chinese
- Checked
Bi Hongwei
The FBI lists Bi Hongwei, a Chinese national, on its Wanted list (notice published in 2022). The notice says Hongwei is wanted for: Conspiracy to Act in the United States as an Illegal Agent of a Foreign Government.
He is described as having brown eyes and black hair. Born in China.
Charges, as published
- Conspiracy to Act in the United States as an Illegal Agent of a Foreign Government
Case details, as published by FBI
Bi Hongwei, Wang Lin, Dong Ting, and Wang Qiang are wanted for their alleged involvement in a conspiracy to act in the United States as agents of a foreign government, namely the People’s Republic of China. From at least 1997 through at least 2018, these individuals allegedly conspired to conduct clandestine and covert human source operations against the United States. Wang Lin, a senior intelligence officer with China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), allegedly acted under academic cover as the Director of the Institute for International Studies at Ocean University of China, in order to gain access to intelligence targets. Wang Lin and the others then allegedly conducted covert operations in order to recruit other individuals to act against the United States to benefit the People’s Republic of China. Bi Hongwei was an MSS intelligence officer who allegedly acted for and on behalf of the People’s Republic of China and the MSS. In October of 2022, federal arrest warrants were issued for Bi Hongwei, Wang Lin, Dong Ting, and Wang Qiang in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, Trenton, New Jersey, after they were charged with Conspiracy to Act in the United States as an Illegal Agent of a Foreign Government.
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