On April 17, 2023, the US Department of Justice announced the arrest of Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping, alleging the two operated a secret “overseas police station” for the Ministry of Public Security in Manhattan’s Chinatown, New York.
On April 17, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the cases of Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping regarding the secret police station, the Ministry of Public Security's 912 Special Working Group, and the former Zoom employee, utilizing the transnational repression framework.
The U.S. Department of Justice has sued 34 officers of the Chinese Communist Party's Ministry of Public Security, accusing them of running an operation that organized online mobs to besiege dissidents and creating a large number of fake accounts.