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Chinese researcher arrested at US university

Special agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation have arrested a Chinese researcher working at the Medical College of Wisconsin on charges of “knowingly engaging in economic espionage,” the FBI announced on 2 April.

Hua Jun Zhao was arrested on 29 March. He is alleged to have used his job at the university to illegally acquire patented cancer research material and to have taken steps to provide that material to Zhejiang University in China.

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