Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu and her father, Arthur Liu, were targeted in a Chinese spying operation.
Arthur Liu told the Associated Press on Wednesday that he was contacted by the FBI in October about a scheme that the United States Justice Department said was ordered by the Chinese government.
In a separate report from Eric Tucker of the Associated Press, the Justice Department announced five men have been charged "with brazen and wide-ranging schemes to stalk and harass Chinese dissidents in the United States" stemming from "increasingly aggressive efforts" by the Chinese government to "seek out, silence and threaten pro-democracy activists abroad.