Two nationals of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were sentenced today for conspiring to act as agents of the PRC government and acting as agents of a foreign government without prior notification to the Attorney General. Liren “Ryan” Lai, 40, and Yuance Chen, 39, were each sentenced to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release. The defendants agreed to operate under the direction and control of the PRC’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), carrying out clandestine intelligence activities in the United States that included facilitating secret “dead drop” cash payments in exchange for information related
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