Charges were formally dropped Thursday against a New York City police officer and former Marine accused of spying for China.
Prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York filed a motion to dismiss the case last week against Baimadajie Angwang, a naturalized Tibetan-American, citing unspecified new information in the case.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn in 2020 had accused him of reporting on the activities of Tibetans living in the U.S. at the direction of the Chinese consulate in New York. He was charged with acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China, wire fraud, making false statements and obstructing an official proceeding.