A file photo of the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning. Photo: Xinhua
Asia Times: Disgraced manager at shipbuilding juggernaut allegedly ‘sold Chinese carrier intel to CIA’
Sun Bo is under a probe for graft and rumored espionage; meanwhile a new rendering of a future carrier without a ski-jump bow is released and then deleted.
A disgraced senior executive of the state-owned China Shipbuilding Industry Corp (CSIC) is said to have fed US spies highly classified information, including the design and specifications of the Liaoning aircraft carrier that underwent years of refurbishment at CSIC’s Dalian Shipyard.
CSIC general manager Sun Bo, the second-highest-ranking executive at the shipbuilding juggernaut, has run afoul of graft and crime busters at the National Supervision Commission and the Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and is under investigation for “gross violation of laws and party discipline,” according to a one-line notice posted last week on the two commissions’ joint website that is devoid of any further details.
Sun’s last public appearance was on June 11 during an inspection trip to a CSIC logistics subsidiary.
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Update: China Investigates Shipyard Exec For Giving CIA Secrets About Aircraft Carrier (Sputnik)
WNU Editor: If convicted, he will be facing the death penalty. There is one question that needs to be answered. If he did sell Chinese secrets to the CIA, how did the Chinese find out?
4 comments:
Wow, I bet that was a trove of information...from 80 years ago.
C'mon Anon. It was only 60 years ago. :)
The guy is dead no matter if innocent or not. China always executes people suspected of treason...
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