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Manhattan man pleads guilty to helping establish secret Chinese police station in NYC

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Man pleads guilty to helping establish secret Chinese police station in NYC .

Chen Jinping , 60 , entered the guilty plea on a single count of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government.

Prosecutors say Chen and his co-defendant, Lu Jianwang , opened and operated a local branch of China ’s Ministry of Public Security .

The clandestine Chinese police operation was shuttered in the fall of 2022 amid an FBI investigation.

Chen faces up to five years in prison at his sentencing on May 30 .

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