US Charges Chinese Spies in Scheme to Bribe Government Employee With Bitcoin to Steal…

Bitcoin.com | Oct 26, 2022 at 12:00 AM
  • The U.S. has charged two Chinese intelligence officers in a scheme to bribe a U.S. government employee to steal “secret” documents relating to the prosecution of a company in China.
  • The defendants paid the government employee, who is actually a double agent, approximately $61,000 in bitcoin for stealing the information.
  • Guochun He (aka Dong He and Jacky He) and Zheng Wang (aka Zen Wang) allegedly orchestrated a scheme to steal internal files and other non-public information from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.