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MIT Professor Arrested for Not Disclosing China Ties

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   U.S. authorities have arrested and charged an MIT professor with
   accepting foreign money, much of it from China, and not disclosing it.

   Gang Chen was arrested Thursday at his home and charged with wire
   fraud, failing to file a foreign bank account report and making a false
   statement in a tax return, the Department of Justice said in a news
   release.

   Chen worked as director of the MIT Pappalardo Micro/Nano Engineering
   Laboratory and director of the Solid-State Solar Thermal Energy
   Conversion Center.

   Since 2013, Chen's research has been funded by more than $19 million in
   federal grants, the DOJ said. During that same time, he reportedly
   received approximately $29 million of foreign funding, including $19
   million from the PRC's Southern University of Science and Technology
   (SUSTech).

   "He was working for the Chinese government while securing U.S. research
   dollars," U.S. Attorney Andrew E. Lelling told reporters.

   Lelling added that "the Chinese government would rather siphon off U.S.
   technology instead of doing the work themselves."

   "It is not illegal to collaborate with foreign researchers. It is
   illegal to lie about it," he added.

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