Court documents allege the efforts were part of 'Operation Fox Hunt,' an illegal effort on behalf of the PRC to repatriate some of its emigrated citizens.
They brought one of the pair's elderly fathers with them to the U.S. from China in order to have him convey the threat that harm will come to family members if they didn't return to China. The group allegedly stalked and harassed their targets' adult daughter.
Michael McMahon, a former New York Police Department sergeant turned private investigator, has been accused of collaborating with the other defendants and providing them with the intelligence necessary to help the group stalk and harass the targets.
According to court documents, Tu Lan, 50, and Zhai Yongqiang, 46, both of China, are the latest two defendants out of nine charged, adding to the total from a previous indictment. Hu Ji, 46 and Li Minjun, 65, both of China; Zhu Feng, 34, a Chinese national living Queens, New York, Michael McMahon, 53, of Mahwah, New Jersey, Zheng Congying, 24, of Brooklyn, New York; and Zhu Yong, aka Jason Zhu, 64, of Norwich, Connecticut were all previously charged. The name of the ninth defendant is sealed.
Nine defendants were named on an indictment Thursday for acting and conspiring to act as illegal agents of the People's Republic of China in a stalking and coercion plot against a couple with United States citizenship. This is a stock image of a gavel.reached out to the Chinese embassy office for comment but did not hear back before publication time.
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