A New York businessman has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for crimes related to Operation Fox Hunt, an extralegal initiative by Beijing to repatriate alleged fugitives and dissidents to China.
An Quanzhong, 58, a Chinese national and permanent U.S. resident, pleaded guilty last May to acting as an unregistered agent for China. He and his daughter, An Guangyan, were among seven people indicted in October 2022 for trying to harass a dissident into returning to China. The younger An has not been sentenced.
Prosecutors did not name the dissident but stated that he was a U.S. resident living in the Eastern District of New York and was on the “list of top 100 priority fugitives” as part of the Chinese communist regime’s Operation Fox Hunt….