Posted on 11/27/2019 7:11:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind
China’s state media on Wednesday released images it said were of a man who claims to be a Beijing-sponsored secret agent confessing to fraud, apparently in an attempt to discredit his assertion that he was involved in intelligence operations in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia.
Chinese government mouthpiece Global Times uploaded screenshots from a court video in which William Wang Liqiang is allegedly making the confession in an October 2016 trial proceeding.
Global Times is a tabloid under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Daily, focusing on international issues.
Wang has defected to Australia and applied for political asylum there.
“[Wang] confessed his fraud case involving 120,000 yuan (US$17,000) in a Chinese court in 2016, admitting he had ‘a weak legal awareness,’” the tabloid said, adding that Chinese local court had sent the video exclusively to Global Times.
The publication did not include any part of the video in its report.
“Wang was tried in the People’s Court of Guangze county, Nanping, East China’s Fujian province, where he confessed to defrauding the sum, according to the video,” Global Times said.
The report said Wang had defrauded a person surnamed Gao, whom he had met through his girlfriend, and quoted Chinese prosecutors.
“Wang defrauded Gao of 25,000 yuan on the grounds that he could help Gao handle the schooling but needed money. In August 2015, Wang again defrauded Gao of 130,000 yuan in the name of helping Gao invest in stocks,” the report said, without giving the alleged victim’s full name or explaining why those two amounts did not add up to the 120,000 yuan mentioned earlier. Earlier this week, Shanghai police said that in October 2016, Wang had been given an 18-month suspended sentence for fraud by the Guangze county court in Fujian.
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I'm glad he's trying to defect, I hope he succeeds. Regardless, I have a feeling that he'll probably die kinda sudden-like.
Bkmrk.
Just using the trade negotiations as an example, China never does anything that they don’t think gives them an advantage - unless forced. China has been voluntarily sending, and funding, many students and post-graduates to the US for decades. They didn’t do his without some level of self-interest.
The more innocuous explanation would be that they were just trying to educate their students and post-doctoral researchers etc. in order to support and promote their careers. The more nefarious explanation is that they have been trying to steal American scientific findings, and to infiltrate our system.
The Hussein O. years.
The Stock Market was a dead zone with the anticipation of the Hildabeast being POTUS at the end of '16.
Maybe he was a good lying Wang and fooled the court into believing he was an innocent man. /sarc
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