A Boston court found Harvard University professor Charles Lieber guilty of concealing scientific cooperation with China and the resulting revenues. Reuters…
According to the prosecutor’s office, Lieber intended to receive the Nobel Prize, for this purpose in 2011 he became a “strategic scientist” at the Wuhan University of Technology in China in order to participate in the “Thousand Talents Program” campaign through him.
Prosecutors claimed that 62-year-old Lieber, seeking the Nobel Prize, agreed in 2011 to become a “strategic scientist” at Wuhan University of Technology in China and through him participated in the Chinese recruiting campaign called the “Thousand Talents Program.” The university paid him up to $ 50 thousand a month, covering living expenses in the amount of $ 158 thousand, which were either transferred to his account in a Chinese bank or issued in cash, the American department pointed out, adding that the professor did not mention his salary in tax returns for 2013 and 2014 and two years did not report a bank account.
During a conversation with FBI officers after his arrest, Lieber said that he would be “younger and stupid” when he decided to cooperate with Wuhan University, believing that it would help him increase his visibility.
During interrogation after his arrest, Lieber said that he was “younger and stupid” when he contacted Wuhan University and believed his cooperation would help raise his profile. He told the FBI that he was paid between $ 50,000 and $ 100,000 in cash, and that there was once $ 200,000 in his bank account.
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