The station, identified Monday, will occupy an entire floor of an office building in Manhattan’s Chinatown before it closes in 2022, according to prosecutors. During its operation, the Chinese government was tasked with “assisting a person of interest,” prosecutors said.
The defendants appeared in court on Monday afternoon.
Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Brion Pease said, “This case exposes the Chinese government’s flagrant violation of our nation’s sovereignty.”
“Such a police station has no place in New York City or any American community,” Peace said in a statement Monday.
Brooklyn federal prosecutors on Monday unsealed two other related cases: one accusing 34 officers of China’s national police of harassing Chinese nationals in New York and the United States, and another accusing eight Chinese government officials of ordering the firing of an employee of a US telecommunications company. Chinese protesters from its platform.
Prosecutors described the 34 officers as having created a “troll farm” involving thousands of fake online personas on social media sites including Twitter. Or who promoted democracy in China.
