2 former Chinese soldiers indicted for leaking secrets from Korean, US military
PYEONGTAEK — Two former Chinese soldiers have been indicted on charges of leaking secrets from the Korean military and the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK), legal sources said Tuesday. One of the suspects was charged with wiretapping communications at major Korean and U.S. air and naval bases 13 times between March 2024 and August this year, according to the Pyeongtaek branch of the Suwon District…
Two former Chinese soldiers have been indicted for leaking secrets from the Korean military and U.S. Forces Korea (USFK), according to legal sources in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. One suspect was accused of wiretapping communications at multiple Korean and U.S. military bases 13 times between March 2024 and August 2024. The 60-year-old former soldier, who had served 40 years in China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) eavesdropping unit, is accused of amassing 13.9 terabytes of intercepted data and smuggling it back to China.
The other suspect, a 45-year-old former member of PLA's special forces, is charged with stealing military exercise data and leadership information from the South Korean-U.S. joint military exercises 12 times. This particular suspect was found to have recruited a civilian worker and fellow PLA soldiers to run a military supply shop near the U.S. military base in Pyeongtaek, located 50 kilometers south of Seoul, from November 2021 to May 2024.
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