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 sensitive military information, prosecutors announced. One suspect, a 60-year-old individual with 40 years of service in China's People's Liberation Army eavesdropping unit, faces wiretapping charges for 13 instances between March 2024 and August 2024. This former soldier collected 13.9 terabytes of intercepted data and intended to smuggle it back to China.
The second suspect, a 45-year-old with a background in the PLA's special forces, is accused of stealing data from Korea-U.S. military exercises 12 times. This operative allegedly recruited civilians and soldiers at a Camp Humphreys supply shop near a U.S. base in Pyeongtaek from November 2021 to May 2024.
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