Disclosure of the connection between the American pilot and the Chinese hacker

, the lawyer of a former US Navy pilot who was arrested on charges of training Chinese army pilots in Australia, announced that he had unwittingly and unknowingly cooperated with a Chinese hacker.

According to this report, 55-year-old Daniel Duggan, an Australian citizen, was arrested in Australia on charges of training Chinese military pilots to land on aircraft carriers and is currently in danger of being extradited from this country to the United States. .

His lawyer stated in a petition that it is feared that the request of the western intelligence agencies to receive sensitive information about this case may make the Dogan family put him at risk.

Dugan has denied any allegations that he violated US arms control laws, but in the lawyer’s petition, the connection Dugan has been identified with a Chinese criminal defense hacker named Su Bin.

After working in Beijing for 6 years, Dugan Arrested to return to Australia in 2022 and is currently being held in a maximum security prison in Australia. He told the Attorney General of Australia that American authorities have found correspondence with Dogan in the electronic devices seized from “Su Bin”. The Attorney General must make a decision about Dogan’s extradition to the United States.

The hearing of this case is scheduled to be held this month, while two years from His arrest takes place in one of the rural areas of Australia. When Britain warned its former military pilots not to work for the Chinese government.

According to this report, Su Bin in 2014 in Canada He was arrested and found guilty in 2016 of stealing plans for US military aircraft by hacking important defense contractors of this country. His name is in the list of seven conspirators with Dogan, whose extradition has been requested.

According to this report, Dogan’s lawyer stated that Dogan Su Bin is known as a recruitment agent for a Chinese state-owned aviation company called AVIC, and the hacking case has nothing to do with his client. In addition, Su Bin may have improper connections with Chinese entities that my client was not aware of.

Meanwhile AVIC aviation company, as a company related to the Chinese military, has been blacklisted by the US government since last year. Opposing his extradition request, they stated that there is no evidence that the Chinese pilots trained by him were military pilots and that he was an Australian citizen before the crimes he was accused of in January 2012.

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