Behind a Secret Chinese Biolab in California, a Global Web of Connections

Epoch Times ^ | 9/19/23 | Steve Ispas, Lear Zhou

[CFW]

The discovery of a black market Chinese biolab operating in California, and the subsequent investigation into it, has exposed a tangled web of shell companies obscuring ownership and loopholes that caused delays in cleanup and informing the public.

The public found out in March about a secret biolab operating in a warehouse in Reedley, California, about 25 miles southeast of Fresno.

But the warehouse and its biological hazards were discovered months earlier, on Dec. 19, 2022, by Jesalyn Harper, a code enforcement officer with the City of Reedley Fire Department.

Responding to an anonymous tip about the supposedly vacant warehouse, Ms. Harper discovered thousands of vials of bacterial and viral agents, including coronavirus, chlamydia, E. coli, streptococcus pneumonia, HIV, hepatitis, herpes, rubella, and malaria.

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"I’ve had a lot of sleepless nights knowing there is no one out there looking for these labs. This could be happening all over the United States," Ms. Harper said.

"It's been an eye-opening experience, realizing the many cracks in our government for these types of organizations to fall through, and also realizing that the government is not our first line of defense."

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The biolab in Reedley is owned by Prestige Biotech Inc., but a closer look into a complex network of companies and employees, including Prestige, all ultimately lead back to Jiabei "Jesse" Zhu, a Chinese national with a Canadian passport.

[CFW]

Some here might remember the reporting at the time this lab was discovered, but not much information was ever released. This is not just a small lab running on a shoe-string budget and cutting corners to cut costs, but operated by people with good intentions. This sounds a lot more nefarious than that.

Here is the paywall free link:

Behind a Secret Chinese Biolab in California, a Global Web of Connections

How many other such labs are operating in our nation?

[House Atreides]

Take it to the bank, there are many other ChiCom bio labs planned to be built in the US. They will have a potential to produce biological warfare agents surreptitiously on command. This is, of course, IMHO.

[CFW]

I wonder if the “Big Guy” gets his ten percent from the many layers of companies operated by Jiabei “Jesse” Zhu.

[Blurb2350]

No doubt. It was only because an inspector glimpsed a garden hose where it shouldn’t have been that it was discovered. Coincidentally I heard on the radio just this morning that Britain’s MI5 reported that something like 10,000 or 20,000 Brits had been approached by Chinese agents and asked to spy for them. Probably mostly industrial and scientific espionage, but still . . .

[minnesota_bound]

Are the cdc people on the board of directors?.....

[ridesthemiles]

NEWSOM SHOULD BE PROSECUTED.

HE GAVE WHOLESALE GRANTS OF MONEY TO THIS GROUP.

OBVIOUSLY DID NOT HOMEWORK ON WHO/WHAT THEY WERE>

IF HE DID DO HOMEWORK-—THEN HE NEEDS TO HANG FOR HIS BEHAVIOR.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

And the democRATS are touting Newsom as a replacement for SloJo. So the Hussein/Biden Regime can become the Hussein/Newsom Regime.

[Parley Baer]

I think that there is a whole lot more to this story. A tell-tale sign is the media is not covering it like they should be. Are they scared that this might lead to the downfall of some Democrats?

[Moorings]

Very scary stuff going on in our own backyard. Meanwhile our FBI resources are focused on “managing” Trump voters for 2024.

[CFW]

an update!

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/arrest-made-central-california-bio-lab-investigation

“Arrest Made in Central California Bio-Lab Investigation”