Allegations have emerged from the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) that two Chinese intelligence officers ellegedly attempted to bribe U.S. government staff with $61,000 Bitcoin, in an attempt to illegally obtain documents relating to an investigation on Huawei from the Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
The documents referred to the name of the firm as “Company-1”. which a report by the Associated Press has identified as Huawei.
The DoJ identified the suspects as Guochun He and Zheng Wang. The filing states that the suspect, He, had offered to pay a sum of Bitcoin to the government official, referred to in the document as “GE-1”, for the information.
As revealed in the deposition, the defendat paid “GE-1” in two installments, one worth $20,000 USD, and the another worth $41,000 USD. The filing went on to clarify that the U.S. official did not disclose any classified information to…
