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Dr. Charles Lieber, who chairs the chemistry department at prestigious Harvard University, was arrested Tuesday morning on charges that he lied about taking a research job with the Chinese government that paid him almost $ 2 million over three years, plus another $ 1.5 million to build a research lab at a university in China, according to an announcement by the United States Justice Department.
Federal agents also arrested two Chinese nationals on Tuesday. One of them, Yanqing Ye, is an officer with China’s People’s Liberation Army who, prosecutors say, concealed that she worked for the PLA while posing as a “student” and sending U.S. research materials to China.