A Chinese national was busted for smuggling American military goods to a foreign nation — but not to the country he’s from.
According to a Monday Department of Justice release, Shenghua Wen, a 42-year-old illegal alien from China living in California, pleaded guilty to two federal charges.
Wen “pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and one count of acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government.”
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He has been in federal custody since being arrested in December 2024.
Of note, Wen illegally exported guns, ammunition and other military equipment not to China — of which he admitted being a citizen of — but to fellow longtime U.S. adversary, North Korea.
Wen originally came to
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