The White House has announced that they will check foreign students and researchers more in the future. Now a Chinese scientist and her colleague have already been charged. The FBI suspects that the two of the two have smuggled a poisonous mushroom that they wanted to investigate at an American university …
The American Annex confirmed the case and announced that Chinesin Yunqing Jian (33) and the Chinese Zunyong Liu (34) were accused of conspiracy, smuggling, false information and the visa. The two work together at the University of Michigan.
The case itself, which now led to an indictment, took place in July 2024. The FBI said that Liu was rejected at Detroit airport and sent back to China. Red plant material was discovered in the backpack in the scientist. He was then interrogated and stated that he knew nothing about the rehearsals. It is said that he changed his statement later. He plans to use the plant material for research purposes.
Here you can see a message for the incident:
Scientist is a party member
According to the FBI, Liu and Jian examined the mushroom together before the airport was set. A scientific article entitled “War against plant pathogens under changed climate conditions” was found on Lius Handy. News between the two defendants of last year would also indicate that before the interrogation at the airport the mushroom had already been worked in the campus laboratory, although this had no corresponding approval of the State. The American public prosecutor Jerome Gorgon Jr. The alleged smuggling described as a problem of “national security” and pointed to the membership of Jian in the Chinese Communist Party.
“Pistol for agrorism”
The FBI even referred to the mushroom Fusarium Graminearum as a “potential weapon for agrorism” and spoke about annual damage in billions. The American crisis management authority refers to agrorism as a “deliberate spread of diseases through livestock farming” and leads a cult in 1984, which was poisoned in various restaurants. The fears are mainly focused on low effort and health and economic damage.
Vomiting and reproduction disorders
The US Department of Justice announced that the mushroom causes ear fusarium and therefore a disease that is influenced by wheat, barley, corn and rice. Fusarium Graminearum lives in the ground, but can also influence plants. For different Fusarium toxins, legal maximum quantities in raw grains and food apply. Possible effects of the mushroom are vomiting, liver damage and reproduction disorders in people and farm animals.
Since the United States does not have a delivery agreement with China, Lius judgment is unlikely when he returns from China, the FBI said. Jian had appeared in court and returned to prison. A deposit negotiation is planned for Thursday.
Source: Krone
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