By Kaveesha Fernando
WASHINGTON, USA (CWBN)_ A former Zoom employee has been placed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) “Wanted” list for counterintelligence after allegedly blocking Zoom video meetings commemorating the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre this June.
A reputed US news channel has reported that court documents indicate that most of the meetings were organized and attended by US participants, some of whom had taken part in the Tiananmen Square protest.
“Xinjiang Jin is wanted for his alleged role in an unlawful conspiracy to commit interstate harassment and an unlawful conspiracy to transfer means of identification when he allegedly engaged in unlawful activity to terminate and/or make accessible information about the communication accounts of persons in the United States at the behest of the Chinese government’s intelligence and security services in the United States and China between January of 2019 and November of 2020,” according to the notice issued by the FBI.
The notice also states that a federal arrest warrant was issued for Jin on November 19 in a United States District Court in New York after he was charged with conspiracy to commit interstate harassment and unlawful conspiracy to transfer means of identification.
One of a series of wanted lists by the FBI, the Wanted list is for “fugitives wanted by the FBI for a variety of violent and non-violent crimes, terrorism suspects, kidnapped and missing persons, and cases about which the FBI is seeking more information,” according to the FBI website.
The pro-democracy protests which took place in Tiananmen Square on April 1989 were brutally suppressed by the Chinese government, with the Chinese military opening fire and killing many of the protestors.
