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Germany: A German-Chinese Indicted for Spying on Falun Gong for the CCP

By De Xiang and Wu Sijing in Germany

(Clearwisdom.net) The German Federal Prosecutor's Office has formally indicted a German-Chinese who spied on Falun Gong practitioners for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Under German law, espionage can be punished with a prison sentence of up to five years. The European Falun Dafa Association stated that several others who are currently spying on Falun Gong practitioners in Germany for the CCP have also been under the German police's surveillance. The association advises these people to stop their wrongdoings in aiding those who are persecuting Falun Gong in China before it is too late.

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The German Federal Prosecutor's Office formally indicted German-Chinese citizen John Z. on January 31, 2011, accusing him of providing information about the Falun Gong group in Germany to the CCP's 610 Office. The public trial is expected to be held in the spring of this year. According to the German Criminal Code, item 99, espionage can be punished with a prison sentence of up to five years.

Germany's Influential Weekly Publication Der Spiegel Reported on This Case

The influential weekly publication Der Spiegel got a tip from German counterespionage about Chinese spying in Germany, and a detailed article was published on June 30, 2010.

It said that “Dan Sun” had gone to the Chinese Embassy in Berlin in 2005 to apply for a visa. The case officer who dealt with his application is believed by German intelligence to be a member of the “Chinese Stasi”—the Stasi was the secret police of the communist government in East Germany. She arranged a meeting between Sun and “Chinese experts” about a “research project” on Falun Gong. The meeting took place in 2006. At dinner Sun was engaged in a conversation that stretched late into the evening. He was drawn into a false friendship with a man deeply engaged in the persecution of Falun Gong in mainland China.
“Dan Sun” is actually John Z. The man with whom John Z. met was Xiaohua Z., a head of the 610 Office who carries the rank of vice minister. Xiaohua Z. was posing as a representative of a university for traditional Chinese medicine in Shanghai.

Mr. John Z., a 54-year-old doctor of Chinese medicine, had transferred information to these agents for years, from as early as 2006. They exchanged e-mails regularly and communicated via Skype almost daily.

Mr. Z. had set up an e-mail account that Chinese agents accessed in February 2009. The German counterespionage agency tracked the access to the data from Germany to a place outside Shanghai.

German investigators visited Mr. Z.’s residence in October 2009 to let him know that he was being monitored. He made many arguments to defend himself.

Investigators from the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (“Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz” in German, or BfV), the agency responsible for counterespionage in Germany, confronted Mr. Z. openly in April 2010, telling him they suspected him being a spy, and searched his home. After that he stopped interacting with the Chinese agents.

The CCP Pressures and Entices Falun Gong Practitioners and Their Families

The CCP has never stopped threatening Falun Gong practitioners or their families to get them to sell out other practitioners over the past ten more years. Three German practitioners or their families have been harassed by the state security agents in China. The agents ordered them to be their informants to collect information about Falun Gong.

Case One: German Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Deqin published an article, entitled “State Security Agents Demanded That I Be an Informant” http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2007/5/22/85975.html on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website. On June 30, 2003, Mr. Liu obtained his visa to go to Germany. In July 2003, members of the 610 Office talked to him. The main point was to demand that he become an informant and spy by taking pictures and monitoring the activities of Falun Gong in Germany. Mr. Liu kept silent during the talk. On July 27, 2003, Mr. Liu arrived safely at Berlin, Germany. It was confirmed later that his home phone in China was being monitored. In late August 2003, a call got through to his cell phone from Zhao, an agent from the Ministry of State Security in China. She asked Mr. Liu to work for them. Mr. Liu turned down the offer and hung up.

Case Two: German Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Jun'an went back to Shanghai in April 2002 with his German wife, Veronika, to visit his family. They were monitored around the clock by the 610 Office. No matter where they went, two plainclothes secret agents and one or two police cars followed them. The agents went to Mr. Zhang's home to check his luggage and took away two copies of Zhuan Falun, in Chinese and German, and other books. The agents also threatened Mr. Zhang's relatives to cooperate with the state security agents and deceived Mr. Zhang and his wife into going to a room in Jinjiang Hotel in Shanghai. Once there, two secret agents attempted to “transform” the couple and force them to give up their cultivation in Falun Gong.

One day ahead of their departure to Germany, the state security agents invited Mr. Zhang and his wife to have a dinner at a restaurant, hinting for Mr. Zhang to be an informant for them when he returned to Germany. Mr. Zhang rejected the offer. The agents also told him not to reveal to anyone that such things were taking place in China and threatened that if he continued taking part in Falun Gong activities outside China, his relatives inside China would be implicated.

Case Three: Practitioner A's parents in China have been frequently harassed by the state security agents over the past three years. Every time, there were two or three plainclothes agents, who didn't show their identities, but only said that they were state security agents. They asked Practitioner A's parents to persuade A in Germany to provide information for the state security agency. They promised that, if A could provide information, she could return to China at any time, and the state security agency would pay for her flight. She could also get paid by the state security division while she was in Germany. A's parents rejected the state security agents' request. After that, the agents asked A's parents to go to Germany to visit her and collect information for them, the parents would get benefits from the state security division. A's parents rejected the offer. The state security agents got angry and threatened that they were capable of preventing A's parents from seeing their daughter forever. Over three years, state security agents adopted both hard and soft means. When A's parents felt ill, the agents visited them with fruit and also visited them on holidays. All this has been done to try to persuade A's parents and A to be their informants.

Those Who Persecute Falun Gong Are Doing Wrong

Chairman of the Mid-U.S. Falun Dafa Association Mr. Yang Sen said, “We believe that good will be rewarded, and evil will meet with retribution. Those secret agents will definitely receive their retribution if their crimes are significant enough. Master Li Hongzhi said in his article published [on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website] in May 2006 that these people should be quick to publicly reveal the bad things that they have done, that is, to break free from the CCP's coercion and threats, take a new lease of life, and make their way back to cultivation. This is compassion, and the gate has been widely opened. It doesn't matter that one has made mistakes as long as one corrects them. But if the person knows that this is wrong, but insists on doing it for the sake of money and personal gain, such a person will definitely be punished.”

Chairman of the European Falun Dafa Association Mr. Wu Wenxin said, “As cultivators, we are not out to catch secret agents. That's the job of Germany's counterespionage agency. I only want to advise those who provide information for the CCP. The agency has investigated John Z. for four years, and the agency even knew who John Z. met when he went to Beijing. The agency submitted the case to the prosecutor's office after collecting a large amount of unmistakable evidence. As for those who haven't been indicted, don't leave things to chance and think that the agency doesn't know about you. Actually, they have you under surveillance. Those who refuse to learn from the case of John Z. and continue aiding the CCP in the persecution of Falun Gong will very likely to be indicted next by the German Prosecutor's Office.”

Posting date: 3/31/2011
Category: More Cases
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2011/3/29/刺探法轮功消息-德籍华裔被起诉-238151.html