Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Illegally Exporting to Chinese Military University

Shuren Qin, a Chinese national living in Wellesley, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to illegally causing the export of more than $100,000 worth of U.S.-origin goods to Chinese military university Northwestern Polytechnical University, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts announced in an April 28 news release. Qin pleaded guilty to a litany of charges including conspiracy to unlawfully export items without an export license, visa fraud, money laundering and smuggling hydrophones from the U.S. to China, the Justice Department said. The illegally exported goods consisted of technology with underwater and marine applications to allegedly be used for NWPU's development of unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles and missile proliferation projects, Justice said. To import the goods, Qin created LinkOcean Technologies, subsequently sending the goods to China from the U.S., Canada and Europe.