http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14250
A medical student at Harvard's Beth Israel Deaconess Teaching Hospital was arrested after attempting to smuggle 21 vials of cancer cells out of the country in a sock.
Zhaosong Zheng was set to board a flight from Boston to Beijing, China when authorities questioned him about the vials of brown material in his checked bag. Zheng ultimately admitted that he had stolen the material in order to publish the research under his own name in China.
Zheng, who was on a visa sponsored by Harvard University, was then arrested.
According to the New York Times, Magistrate Judge David Hennessy ordered that Zheng be held without bail. Zheng's roommate, Jialin Li, told the F.B.I that two others in Zheng's lab at Beth Israel had completed the task of smuggling the material. F.B.I Director Christopher Wray said the researchers are "non-traditional collectors of intelligence acting at the behest of the Chinese Government."
There is evidence of ties to the Chinese Government, according to Hennessey, as reported by the Boston Herald. Zheng was receiving $2,000 per month from the China Scholarship Council, which is sponsored by the Chinese Government. ...
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