A NYPD sergeant in the detective agency is investigated by the FBI due to alleged espionage for the Chinese government, sources tell DailyMail.com exclusively.
Zhu Jiang, who serves in a unit that investigates healthcare fraud and has access to very sensitive information, is suspended without wages from the department, confirmed a police spokesperson.
Jiang, who is Asian, serves from the Jacob K. Javitz building on 26 Federal Plaza, which houses the FBI field office of the FBI and is a few blocks away from the police headquarters.
He joined the NYPD in 2013 and previously served in the organized Crime Investigative Division and in various detective quadrons in Brooklyn, according to records. He earned $ 169,000 last year.
The attempts from DailyMail.com to reach Jiang were not successful.
Zhu Jiang, who serves in a unit investigating healthcare fraud and has access to very sensitive information, is suspended without wages from the department, confirmed a police spokesperson confirmed
Jiang, who is Asian, serves from the Jacob K. Javitz building on 26 Federal Plaza
He could be seen in a Chinese language in the Epoch Times in 2016 when he was announced as NYPD's Neighborhood Coordinator for Achth Avenue in Brooklyn after a wave of robberies in the area that focused on people of Chinese ethnicity.
He received the mail because he was one of the few NYPD officers who spoke the Fuzhou dialect of Chinese who is common in that area.
Sources tell DailyMail.com that he is being investigated for espionage on behalf of China. One source said on Sunday that he was not charged or taken in custody.
Jiang is the second NYPD officer who is suspected of espionage for China in the last 12 months.
Lt. Steven Li was fired in May last year, the New York Post reported.
Li worked in the Internal Affairs Bureau when he brought a Chinese official into contact with a woman he knew.
The civil servant, Sun Hi Ying, was in the United States as part of Operation Fox Hunt, a program to convince fugitives to return to China.
The woman, only identified as Huang, who by the Chinese government was the target of alleged embezzlement of money from a state -owned company and buying properties in her home country with the proceeds.
Eventually the NYPD decided that Li did not act as a Chinese agent, but found it guilty of making false statements and not reporting an FBI probe in him.
