File Photo: The federal preparation system is found in Washington, Washington on January 26, 2022.
Joshua Roberts | Reuters
Former senior advisor Federal preparation system On Friday, he was arrested for being accused of stealing Fed’s corporate secrets for Chinese interests.
According to Washington DC’s U.S. lawyer office, data that advisor John Halold Rogers has shared with the conspiracy and the conspiracy can operate the US market “in a way similar to insider transactions.” You can do it.
“Gaining prior knowledge of US economic policy, including prior knowledge of the federal funding rate, may be advantageous to China when selling or purchasing US bonds or securities,” said the office. He said that China has about $ 81.6 billion US governments. debt.
Prosecutors said that Rogers’s two suspects were a member of the Chinese Intelligency reporting device, pretending to be graduate students in a university in that country.
It is said that their conspiracy gave him gifts, arranged for Rogers’ vacation on the beach and paid.
Rogers, a 63 -year -old resident in Vienna, Virginia, was so Prosecuted In the DC Federal Court, the conspiracy accusation of committing an economic spy and making false statements. He is facing the biggest sentence of 15 years in prison if he was convicted of a spy charge.
The case was announced on the same day that the White House said on Saturday that President Donald Trump would impose China, Canada and Mexico.
Rogers said that he had been working as a senior advisor to the Federal Reserve Council’s International Financial Division from 2010 to 2021.
According to prosecutors, as part of the job, he was “entrusted with confidential Fed information.”
Since 2018, Rogers said, “The Ministry of Trade’s secret information on its own economic datasets, deliberations on tariffs on China, explanations of books for designated governor, and deliberations on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). It is said that the U.S. lawyer office has exploited the employment by seeking deliberations on confidential information.
The prosecution accuses him from his personal e -mail, violating the Fed’s policy, giving it electronically or printing it before traveling to China to meet the conspiracy. I will do it.
“In pretending to teach” class “, Rogers met his conspirators in a room in a hotel in China, where he conveyed information about the Ministry of Trade, delicate, belonging to the FRB and FOMC,” said the US Power of Authority. Ta.
In 2023, Rogers has paid about $ 450,000 as a part -time worker at a university in China.
According to the prosecution in February 2020, in response to questions to the Fed inspector’s inspector, the Central Bank’s internal watchdog, “Rogers has accessed and passed sensitive information, and his conspiracy. He lied about the relationship with. “
The FBI Assistant Director in charge of David Sundberg said, “The Chinese Communist Party has expanded the US government’s financial policy and corporate secrets to become the only superpower. I did. “
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