Nine individuals were indicted on July 22 on charges connected to their actions as “illegal agents” for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as part of an effort to intimidate a former CCP regime official to return to China from the United States. A previous criminal complaint, superseded by the present charges, had been filed in October 2020. The recent charges included Chinese prosecutor Tu Lan as a ninth defendant. Tu Lan had travelled to the US for the purpose of directing a harassment campaign and had further directed a co-conspirator “to wipe evidence.” The former Chinese municipal government official, called
