A New York City police officer was arrested and charged with being a Chinese agent after being accused of relaying information about Tibetans in the New York area to the Chinese Consulate.

Baimadajie Angwang, a 33-year-old who was born in Tibet, was charged on Monday with acting as an agent of a foreign government without prior notification to the attorney general, wire fraud, making false statements, and obstruction of an official proceeding, according to CNBC.

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