A Chinese national has been sentenced to two years in prison for his role in Beijing’s extralegal campaign called “Operation Fox Hunt,” which sought to pressure expatriates to return to China.
Zhu Yong, 68, a Chinese retiree and lawful U.S. permanent resident, was one of three individuals indicted in 2023 on various charges related to surveilling, harassing, and stalking a former Chinese official named Xu Jin and his family living in suburban New Jersey.
Judge Pamela Chen of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York sentenced Zhu to two years of imprisonment on four counts on Jan. 15, including acting as an agent of a foreign government without prior notification to the attorney general and stalking, according to a court document. Zhu is scheduled to turn himself in for his prison term on April 15….