US think tank IAGS’ official accused of acting as Chinese agent
A senior official of the US think tank Institute for the Analysis of Global Security has been accused of acting as an unregistered agent of China, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said on Monday. Gal Luft, a citizen of the US and Israel, is accused of recruiting and paying a former high-ranking US government official on behalf of principals based in China in 2016, without registering as a foreign agent as required by law.
The US official was working as an adviser to the then president-elect Donald Trump at the time. According to prosecutors, Luft also sought to broker the sale of weapons and Iranian oil. He is accused of pushing the adviser to support policies favorable to China, including by drafting comments in the adviser's name published in a Chinese newspaper.
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