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A newly unsealed criminal complaint alleges that Texas A&M University professor Zhengdong Cheng hid affiliations with a Chinese university and at least one Chinese company while leading a team conducting research for NASA. Federal prosecutors say the terms of his NASA grant prohibited collaboration with any Chinese university or Chinese-owned company.
Cheng, who was taken into custody Sunday, allegedly participated in a Chinese government-sponsored program for recruiting scientific talent. His arrest marks the latest in a series of arrests of professors accused of failing to disclose their ties to Chinese entities on federal scientific grant applications.
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