Singaporean Sentenced to Prison by U.S. in China Spying Case
- Dickson Yeo gets 14 months in prison following guilty plea
- Yeo targeted government officials, set up fake consultancy
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A Singaporean man was sentenced to 14 months in prison on Friday in a U.S. federal court after pleading guilty to acting as an illegal agent for Chinese intelligence, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
Jun Wei Yeo, also known as Dickson Yeo, admitted in July that he provided valuable information to Chinese intelligence and knowingly recruited others in the U.S. to do the same. The sentence was two months shorter than the punishment recommended by prosecutors, according to the Associated Press.