美国政治与政策

Chinese couple charged with attempt to smuggle noxious fungus into US

Case comes as Washington continues to focus on national security risks stemming from Beijing

The justice department has charged two Chinese nationals with a conspiracy to smuggle a “potential agroterrorism weapon” into the US.  

Federal prosecutors accused a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan and her boyfriend of seeking to bring a noxious fungus into the US to research it in the college laboratory, according to a criminal complaint announced on Tuesday. 

The alleged conduct was “of the gravest national security concerns”, Jerome Gorgon, interim US attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, said in a statement.

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