A federal district court in California sentenced a former US Navy sailor on Monday to 27 months in prison for taking thousands of dollars in bribes and providing Chinese intelligence agencies with “controlled and classified” details of large-scale US military exercises in the Indo-Pacific region, the US Department of Justice said.
In October, Wenheng Zhao, also known as Thomas Zhao, pleaded guilty to conspiring with a foreign adversary and accepting bribes. Prosecutors said he had been given nearly US$15,000 in 14 separate payments.
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