Literally spy balloon 2.0. This time a community center for helping immigrants with government paperwork is actually a secret spy agency.
He clarified that it was a police overseas service station, which was different from an actual police station. According to him, no police officers from China had visited their office and the association was focused on helping Chinese citizens renew and complete forms.
Jimmy Lu explained that during the pandemic, many Chinese immigrants were unable to travel back to China due to restrictions. To aid them, the association collaborated with the local police station in Fuzhou to remotely assist immigrants in renewing their Chinese driver’s licenses, as well as other necessary documents.
Jimmy Lu said that the association offered its office as a venue for Chinese immigrants to have virtual meetings with police officers in China. The staff at the association also assisted in measuring the applicants’ vision and weight to ensure their driver’s license information was up-to-date. The association informed Chinese-language media in NYC when establishing the police service station in 2022. In a picture the association shared with the press, Harry Lu, Jinping Chen and other leaders of the organization sat in front of a desk with a banner hanging on the wall that said, “Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station.”
To coincide with the time zone in China, the office operated at 9:30 p.m. every Thursday from February to September 2022, helping more than 120 Chinese immigrants renew their driver’s licenses, Jimmy Lu said. Federal prosecutors say the police station was closed in the fall of 2022 after those operating it became aware of the FBI’s investigation.
I also absolutely love that part, the super duper secret police station is so secret that they checks notes gave the media a photo of them in front of a sign that says "Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station".
This definitely feels like a lost in translation moment. In many countries (like China), police are involved with administrative stuff like driver license registration and such. But in America, police are only associated with brutal violence, extortion, and property theft. Easy mistake for the FBI to make
When was the last time the FBI caught a real criminal that they didn't groom or invent
yes, just how those Chinese diaspora community center orgs are used to call the Chinese Freemasons because translation sucks
lmao we have the same fuckin thing with czech 'embassies'. you just show up to some guy's house and he handles all your docs so you dont have to go to czechia to file paperwork. its literally just like, 1 guy doing the whole thing. lets you renew passports and drivers licenses without jumping through a ton of hoops
in general most countries that do not have a huge diplomatic arm function this way. they have a big embassy in the capital of important countries (so czechia has one in london and DC) and all the big cities get 1 guy with a house
Our agencies can not fathom a government entity without malicious ulterior motives because the concept is so alien to them.
To be fair, this is technically a "police station" but it is not secret in the slightest. Seems like more of an embassy.
