Cleveland Clinic: FBI Arrests Chinese Doctors with Undisclosed Ties to CCP for $3.6 Million Fraud Received from National Institutes of Health (NIH), Stealing American Scientific Advances

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A Chinese-born former employee of the Cleveland Clinic was arrested on fraud charges related to US$3.6 million in federal grants, the FBI said on Thursday, in a move to stop China from their flagrant stealing of American scientific advances.

US investigators say China and its citizens and operatives have long made extensive and aggressive efforts to steal unclassified American technology, ranging from military materiel to medical research, but US agencies only launched a broad effort to stop alleged Chinese espionage in the United States in 2018.

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Prosecutors said Dr. Qing Wang accepted grants from the National Institutes of Health without disclosing that he was serving at same time as dean of the College of Life Sciences and Technology at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology. That was a violation of the terms of the grants, they said.

Former Cleveland Clinic Employee Arrested

By: FBI, May 20202 (thanks to Christian)

A former Cleveland Clinic employee was arrested Wednesday, May 13, 2020, without incident by law enforcement. Dr. Qing Wang is being charged with false claims and wire fraud related to more than $3.6 million in grant funding that Dr. Wang and his research group at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF) received from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, along with the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, conducted law enforcement activity at Dr. Qing Wang’s residence in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Dr. Wang was placed into custody at approximately 12:30 p.m.

“As this case demonstrates, Chinese government-supported talent plans continue to encourage people, regardless of nationality, to commit crimes, such as fraud to obtain U.S. taxpayer-funded research,” said Robert R. Wells, acting assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division. “The FBI and our partners will continue to rigorously investigate these illegal activities to protect our government, educational, and research institutions.”

“This is not a case of simple omission,” said FBI Cleveland Special Agent in Charge Eric B. Smith. “Dr. Wang deliberately failed to disclose his Chinese grants and foreign positions and even engaged in a pervasive pattern of fraud to avoid criminal culpability. The collective efforts of the FBI, HHS-OIG, and Cleveland Clinic officials demonstrate our commitment to hold those like Dr. Wang accountable.”

“As alleged in the complaint, this defendant misled the National Institutes of Health about support he received and research he conducted in the People’s Republic of China,” said U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman of the Northern District of Ohio. “Federal law enforcement remains vigilant to fraudulent claims for grant support from any researcher who fails to disclose support from foreign governments and competing research interests in other countries. We appreciate the cooperation of this defendant’s former employer, the Cleveland Clinic, in the investigation and highlight the important partnerships between federal agencies, law enforcement, and the private sector demonstrated in this case.”

According to the criminal complaint, Dr. Wang knowingly failed to disclose to NIH that he held an affiliation and the position of dean of the College of Life Sciences and Technology at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) and received multiple grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (CNSF) for some of the same scientific research funded by the NIH grant. As a result, Dr. Wang’s false representations and promises led NIH to approve and fund grants to Dr. Wang and his research group at CCF.

It is also alleged Dr. Wang participated in the Thousand Talents Program, a program established by the Chinese government to recruit individuals with access to or knowledge of foreign technology and intellectual property. As a result of his admission into the TTP, China provided $3 million in research support to enhance the facilities and operations at the Key Lab at HUST. Dr. Wang received free travel and lodging for his trips to China, to include a three-bedroom apartment on campus for his personal use. This also occurred at the time Dr. Wang was receiving NIH grant funds yet failed to disclose this affiliation to the NIH.

This case was investigated by the Cleveland Division of the FBI, the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, with assistance from Cleveland Clinic officials. The case is being prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Ohio.

A charge is not evidence of guilt. A defendant is entitled to a fair trial in which it will be the government’s burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

Also this:

FBI Arrests Two Chinese Scientists Working in U.S. for ‘Undisclosed Ties’ to Beijing Government

On May 12, the FBI arrested 63-year-old Simon Saw-Teong Ang, a Chinese engineering professor who has taught at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville since 1988, and who was also a recipient of a grant from NASA. He is charged with failing to reveal that he “had close ties with the Chinese government and Chinese companies,” which he was required to do in order to receive NASA grant money. These “false representations,” the FBI charged, “resulted in numerous wires to be sent and received that facilitated Ang’s scheme to defraud.”

Ang was also a scholar in China’s Thousand Talents program. While the FBI claims that isn’t a crime in itself, the FBI website states that its investigations

“have revealed that the participants are often incentivized to transfer to China the research they conduct in the United States, as well as other proprietary information to which they can gain access, and remain a significant threat to the United States. In some cases, this has resulted in violations of U.S. laws, including economic espionage, theft of trade secrets and grant fraud.”

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anonQ
anonQ
3 years ago

Any country with a lick of common sense would execute people for these kinds of cases.

spfoam1
spfoam1
3 years ago
Reply to  anonQ

Any country with a lick of common sense would execute the people who opened our door to communists.

China does what I would expect a large communist nation to do. Why did the most educated and powerful people in the USA use our wealth and technology to enrich China, and why did they also enable them to do what they would be expected to do? Why are we educating and funding Chinese communists?

China was grown from a small threat into a large threat so we would have to fight them at our expense, to the benefit of a foreign bank.

China didn’t fool anyone, they were invited to take whatever they could. We were set up by traitors.

anonQ
anonQ
3 years ago
Reply to  spfoam1

comment image Totally agree!

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  anonQ

Yes, and Harvard is filled with ’em. And, they’re white, native born Americans.

It’s one thing to see Chinese spies doing this. Quite another to see white American spies, for the PRC, doing it.

Suresh
Suresh
3 years ago
Reply to  anonQ

chinese are smarter I guess. They got rich off America and planing to screw America even more and Americans keep buying chinese stuff ! LOL !

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
3 years ago

Do not want to hear about doing any trade with China, complete trade cut no tourism and many other issues.

China has played our countries as fools and we need to seize many Chinese corporations, assets within countries. Send back many Chinese that have come within the last 30 years

spfoam1
spfoam1
3 years ago

They didn’t played us as fools. The ruling class here played us as fools. China was handed every opportunity to take what they wanted, and they were paid to do it with our money, and they were trained to do it in our universities. The rulers who opened the door to a snake want us to think that the snake picked the lock.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  spfoam1

That’s certainly true too!

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
3 years ago
Reply to  spfoam1

This is where the real problem is.

Vatican Moves Global Pact on Education Event to October 15
http://www.fulcrum7.com/news/2020/3/4/vatican-moves-global-pact-on-education-event-to-october

Economy of Francesco”
https://jesuit.org.uk/tags/economy-francesco

Talking about education, goes back years many articles
Islam in public schools
http://www.akdart.com/islam4.html

spfoam1
spfoam1
3 years ago

Why did Islam get a bath and new set of clothes, on both sides of the Atlantic, not long after oil was discovered in America and refined into a fuel?

Why would a barbaric civilization, that invaded Europe in the most brutal manner, and was attacking the trade ships of the original colonies before we were even the USA, be allowed to control the energy to most of the world?

Why didn’t the USA and Europe take the oil in the ME when it was obvious that oil was going to fuel a new world and become the biggest cash cow of all time? Who was controlling this from behind a curtain?

Who told us oil came from dead plants and animals? Who told us we didn’t have much oil so we better buy it from Arabs, and protect Arab oil fields with our military, and protect the oil to our other enemies with our military?

Who gave Arabs the technology to drill for oil?

Who bankrolled the Marxists in academia, on both sides of the Atlantic, and who controlled what was published?

Who bought the press and slowly turned it into a propaganda machine?

Who was behind that? Who gave the Vatican a big loan? The Vatican is a tool.

stephen5970
stephen5970
3 years ago

Western societies should stop allowing Chinese foreign students and professors to their schools or research programs. They learn the expertise of the West, and for some strange reason abscond with not only the research they worked on but the department’s research.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  stephen5970

Thank you!

Allot of them come here for marriage too. Some don’t want to return and will marry anyone for citizenship. It’s s crazy. FOREIGN STUDENTS get preference onver INTERN assignments at colleges and unversities from companies. Plus they get OPT (Optional practical training) credit which helps them H-IB VISAS after they graduate. Even worse employers are incented to hire them!

WHY are we giving away jobs to educated FOREIGN STUDENTS?
Eventually they can qualify for a green card and citizenship.

This is how they do it.
Student VISA to H-1B VISA:

https://studyinthestates.dhs.gov/sevis-help-hub/student-records/fm-student-employment/f-1-optional-practical-training-opt

Thomas Faddis
Thomas Faddis
3 years ago

Execute all spies! #obamagate!

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

I would BET allot of them are here on white collar VISAS!

China has to STEAL innovation beacuse they are not capable of it. Their oppressive mindset, discourages innovation. It’s the by product of COMMUNISM!

CARRENO  BARTOX
CARRENO BARTOX
3 years ago

I’ld not surprised if they find FAUCI within this stinking conglomerate of Democrats, CCP, US universities and medical institutions.

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