China sentences scientific researcher to death for selling codes, secret documents
Huang Yu handed over details of 150,000 classified papers for cash, according to state television report
China has sentenced to death an employee at a scientific research institution for espionage, state television reported.
Huang Yu, 41, was convicted of selling over 150,000 classified documents to foreign intelligence agencies, CCTV said.
These included 90 “top confidential”, 292 “confidential” and 1,674 “secret” files which leaked cipher codes for Communist Party, government, military and financial communications.
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“This case would have led to bloodshed and cost lives if it happened in wartime,” the television report quoted a National Security Agency official as saying.
The report did not say who Huang was spying for.
Huang, a computer specialist, joined a research institute in Chengdu in Sichuan province in 1997 that develops China’s cryptographic communication codes and he kept copies of the state secrets he handled.
He offered online to sell military communication codes in 2002 and was contacted by foreign intelligence agencies, the report said.
