Secret CCP Overseas Police Station in NYC Shutdown After Reported FBI Raid

After a raid by the Chinese regime, a New York-based covert police station operating overseas was shut down. FBI.

“The FBI has confirmed that the ‘overseas police station’ in New York linked to Fuzhou has closed,” In an email to The Epoch Times, a spokesperson from the State Department stated this.

“We continue to be concerned about PRC [People’s Republic of China] transnational repression efforts around the world and are also coordinating with allies and partners on this issue.”

The closure of the facility in New York’s Chinatown comes just weeks after The New York Times reported FBI agents searched and raided the building at an undisclosed date last fall.

Experts believe the network includes more than 100 other covert facilities.CCP) is conducting a campaign of transnational repression.

Two reports, published in October 2022 And December 2022 Safeguard Defenders is a non-profit organization that uses overseas police outposts to gather intelligence and forcibly repatriate Chinese dissidents back to China to be imprisoned.

“We are aware of reports regarding alleged PRC ‘overseas police stations,’” The spokesperson for the State Department said that.

“We take this issue very seriously. Establishing so-called overseas police stations without the invitation or approval of the country in which they are operating raises serious issues of respect for the sovereignty of that country.”

The spokesperson for The Epoch Times directed The Epoch Times to both the FBI and Justice Department in order to get more information. The Justice Department didn’t respond to a request for comment by press time, and the FBI declined to comment on the matter.

China’s Communist Regime ‘Violates Sovereignty’

Chinese authorities insist that the facilities were not destroyed. Operate in 53 nations, assist Chinese immigrants in foreign nations with tasks that would normally be handled by a consulate, such as renewing driver’s licenses and visas.

However, the stations have been linked to the CCP’s United Front Work Department, an agency that works to advance the regime’s interests abroad by spreading propaganda, conducting foreign influence operations, suppressing dissident movements, gathering intelligence, and facilitating the transfer of technology to communist China.

Many nations expressed concern that these facilities pose a threat to their national security and violate their sovereignty.

Canadian, Dutch, and Irish officials called on China not to conduct similar operations in their own countries. They are also a violation U.S. sovereignty, according to Christopher Wray, Director of FBI.

“I’m very concerned about this,” Wray During November 2022 hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

“I have to be careful about discussing our specific investigative work, but to me, it is outrageous to think that the Chinese police would attempt to set up shop—you know, in New York, let’s say—without proper coordination. It violates sovereignty and circumvents standard judicial and law enforcement cooperation processes.”

He refrained at the time from commenting on the legality of the overseas police stations but said they were part of the CCP’s campaign of global transnational repression and linked them to CCP efforts to spy on Americans.

“The reason this is so important is because we have seen a clear pattern of the Chinese government, the Chinese Communist Party, exporting their repression right here into the U.S.,” Wray spoke.

“We have seen plenty of situations … where the Chinese government, under the pretext of going after corruption, have essentially used that as a vehicle to surveil. We’ve had situations where they’ve planted bugs inside Americans’ cars.”

Safeguard Defenders reports that there are three other similar facilities operating in Los Angeles and New York. It’s unclear if they also have been a target of the FBI.

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