Two Chinese nationals are accused of smuggling a "potential agroterrorism weapon" via a noxious fungus into the U.S.

The biological pathogen federal authorities accuse two Chinese nationals of smuggling into the U.S. was not likely an act of ...

Currently most countries do not have adequate awareness or processes to detect espionage within universities. Nor do we have adequate legislation to urgently remove a suspected rogue scientist from a ...

Han is the third Chinese scientist to be accused of smuggling biological materials into Michigan in recent weeks.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Monday that it has apprehended a University of Michigan (U-M) scholar from the ...

The FBI counterintelligence case marks the second time in less than a week a Chinese national with ties to UM has been ...

In Detroit, two people were charged with allegedly smuggling a fungus into America, claiming it was for studying at the ...

I commend the FBI Detroit Division and our partners at CBP for stopping this biological threat before it could do real damage." University of Michigan research fellow Yunqing Jian and her boyfrien ...

The FBI has arrested Yunqing Jian, a graduate student from China at the University of Michigan, on charges of conspiracy, ...

Two Chinese scientists accused of smuggling or shipping biological material into the United States without permits will ...

"The alleged smuggling of biological materials by Chengxuan Han is a direct threat to public safety and ... China—to be used at a University of Michigan laboratory – is part of an alarming ...

June 6, 2025 Experts doubt FBI’s claim that crop fungus smuggled by Chinese students is a threat A biological sample ... for Chinese researcher A Michigan court has scheduled a bail hearing ...