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From NY Post:
A Chinese researcher allegedly tried to smuggle biological materials into the US from Wuhan and lied to the feds about the secretive scheme.
Chengxuan Han was arrested Sunday after landing at the Detroit Metropolitan airport on a flight from Shanghai, according to charging documents. She was charged with smuggling goods into the US and making false statements.
Upon Han’s arrival to the US, border officers discovered Han sent four packages that “contained biological material related to round worms” from China, according to court documents.
Upon Han’s arrival in the US, border officers discovered that she had sent four packages from China containing biological material related to roundworms, as per court documents.
These packages, addressed to individuals associated with a laboratory at the University of Michigan, were sent in both 2024 and 2025.
However, Han deceived the officers, claiming that she had not sent the packages to members of the Michigan lab. She also asserted that the packages contained plastic cups instead of petri dishes.
When the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations interrogated Han, she confessed to shipping the biological materials to the lab from her research as a Ph.D. student at the College of Life Science and Technology in the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in Wuhan, as per court documents.
🚨BREAKING: Third Chinese national accused of smuggling biological materials into Michigan
Authorities say Han is a doctoral student at the College of Life Science and Technology in the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China.
On June 8, Chengxuan Han was… pic.twitter.com/tXqIpMHVKK
— Michigan News Source (@MINewsSource) June 9, 2025
Two other Chinese scientists have been charged with smuggling illegal biological materials into the U.S. recently.
Last year, Yunqing Jian, 33, and her boyfriend Zunyong Liu, 34, were accused of trying to smuggle a crop-killing fungus into the US, according to the FBI said.
🚨🇨🇳 WUHAN SCIENTIST BUSTED AT DETROIT AIRPORT WITH BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL
3rd one this month.
Chengxuan Han flew in from Shanghai, told agents she was just visiting.
What she didn’t mention: 4 packages of biological samples already shipped ahead, labeled as “plastic cups,” but… https://t.co/saGP2i3Jmy pic.twitter.com/UKzZXWbf0s
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) June 9, 2025
READ MORE AT NYPost.com.
Chengxuan Han is the third Chinese scientist to be accused of smuggling biological materials (this time is round worms) into Michigan in recent weeks.@TheLastRefuge2 https://t.co/vuIbROOGzl
— Ben Tallmadge (@BenTallmadge01) June 9, 2025
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