An NYPD sergeant in the detective bureau is under investigation by the FBI for allegedly spying for the Chinese government, sources exclusively tell DailyMail.com.
Zhu Jiang, who serves in a unit that investigates healthcare fraud and has access to highly sensitive information, has been suspended without pay from the department, a police spokesman confirmed.
Jiang, who is Asian, serves out of the Jacob K. Javitz Building at 26 Federal Plaza, which houses the FBI’s New York field office and is a couple blocks away from police headquarters.
He joined the NYPD in 2013 and has previously served in the organized crime investigative division and in various detective squads in Brooklyn, records show. He earned $169,000 last year.
DailyMail.com’s attempts to reach Jiang were not successful.
Zhu Jiang, who serves in a unit that investigates healthcare fraud and has access to highly sensitive information, has been suspended without pay from the department, a police spokesman confirmed
Jiang, who is Asian, serves out of the Jacob K. Javitz Building at 26 Federal Plaza
He was featured in a Chinese language piece in the Epoch Times in 2016 when he was announced as the NYPD’s neighborhood coordinator for Eighth Avenue in Brooklyn after a spate of robberies in the area that targeted people of Chinese ethnicity.
He got the post because he was one of the few NYPD officers who spoke the Fuzhou dialect of Chinese which is prevalent in that area..
Sources tell DailyMail.com that he is being investigated for espionage on behalf of China. One source said Sunday that he has not been charged or taken into custody.
Jiang is the second NYPD officer to be suspected of spying for China in the past 12 months.
Lt. Steven Li was fired in May last year, the New York Post reported.
Li was working in the Internal Affairs Bureau when he put a Chinese official in touch with a woman he knew.
The official, Sun Hoi Ying, was in the United States as part of Operation Fox Hunt, a program to persuade fugitives to return to China.
The woman, identified only as Huang, who was being targeted by the Chinese government for allegedly embezzling money from a state-owned company and buying properties in her homeland with the proceeds.
In the end, the NYPD decided Li was not acting as a Chinese agent but found him guilty of making false statements and failing to report an FBI probe into him.
