The sailor was convicted of sending information about the US Navy’s large-scale training in the Indo-Pacific region, as well as sending electrical circuits and drawings of the radar system to a US base on the island of Okinawa. Japan.
In the United States, US Navy sailor Wenheng Zhao was sentenced to two years and three months in prison for sending confidential military information to China. The BBC reported this today, January 9.
Zhao was reportedly born in China, immigrated to the US in 2009 and became a citizen in 2012, and five years later enlisted in the military, serving at a US Navy base in California.
Zhao was convicted of passing information about the US Navy’s large-scale training in the Indo-Pacific region, as well as sending electrical circuits and blueprints for a radar system to a US base on the Japanese island of Okinawa.
It was noted that between August 2021 and May 2023, he received at least 14 payments for information totaling $14,866.
He allegedly pleaded guilty in court in October. Then it was said that he faced 20 years in prison.
It was previously reported that in Poland, law enforcement officials detained a Belarusian woman suspected of espionage. The woman provided the Belarusian KGB with information about members of the Belarusian diaspora and about organizations uniting Belarusians and Poles of Belarusian nationality.
Source: korrespondent
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