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A former Federal Reserve official was arrested on Friday after a U.S. prosecutor accused China's financial secrets.
From 2010 to 2010, John Rogers, a senior advisor to the Fed's International Finance Division, uses his position to access delicate data on Chinese -related tariffs, briefing for officials, policy debate and presentation. Washington was sealed by the charges sealed by the Federal Court sealed on Friday.
Virginia 63 -year -old Rogers was accused of printing it to a personal email account before printing it and telling the Chinese officials who disguised him as a graduate student. He has also accused that he has communicated with Chinese officials using an encrypted messaging app.
The Judician said on Friday, “pretending to teach” classes “,” he met his conspiracy in a Chinese hotel room where he gave them a delicate corporate secret information belonging to the Fed.
Economist added that he had paid about $ 450,000 as a part -time worker at the University of Fudan in China.
Rogers' lawyer was not immediately asked for comments.
This prosecution is the latest case in which officials in the US government, especially CIA and the army, are increasingly accused of providing confidential information or confidential information to the Chinese government.
In recent years, the Justice Ministry has become more common in emphasizing cases that emphasize the threats of China's spy activities. Washington accused Chinese hackers attacking US communication networks in large and wide campaigns that allow perpetrators to access the conversation of American officials.
The Chinese Embassy in Washington said in the details of the Rogers case, “unknown,” but China said it would “support the rule of the law.”
“We oppose the so -called” spy -risk, “opposite the coating specimens and attacks on China,” said the embassy.
The Chinese government is one of the largest world holders of US government bonds. Future interest rates and signals in the future monetary policy movements can also affect the US Treasury, one of the most carefully viewed reports in global financial markets.
According to the US Treasury, China has officially retained $ 768.6 billion debt as of November, and is the second largest foreign holder after Japan.
The prosecution claims that sensitive information has been shared from “at least 2018” as “working for Chinese information and security equipment and suspected of being a graduate student who served as a graduate student.” [Chinese] University “.
The Fed refused the comment.
Rogers, who speaks a limited Chinese, discusses the topic that taught that the meeting would be “legal in the Fed's Eye”, according to the encrypted message exchanged for the suspected complaint in charge of the prosecution. did.
Rogers's trip was covered by the Chinese counter part. “”[D]Don't worry about travel costs. 。 。 We do not waste money, but we can bear all the costs you need. You can choose a comfortable and convenient way for travel, “he says in the complaint.
It is said that the corporate secrets at the center of the lawsuit include the evaluation of the European Central Bank, the briefing note of the Fed Board of Directors, and the title “Briefing before FOMC”.
In 2020 Rogers, when asked about access and sharing of sensitive materials, prosecutors said they lied to the federal investigator's office.
Former Director of the National Security Council, China, said that the potential goal needs to be more vigilant on China's approach.
“There are several career advice here. If someone in a university in China has $ 450,000 for part -time jobs, it will escape,” said the current state -paying advisory company GARNAUT GLOBAL. Tobin, the director, says. “You have not obtained such offer for your brilliance and charm.”
