Arkansas Professor Arrested, Accused of Hiding Links To Chinese Regime

The seal of the F.B.I. hangs in the Flag Room at the bureau's headquarters in Washington on March 9, 2007. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

A professor from the University of Arkansas has been arrested on wire fraud charges over his alleged ties to the Chinese regime.

According to court documents, the Fayetteville campus professor, 63-year-old Simon Saw-Teong Ang, allegedly received grant money from NASA, but failed to disclose his ties to the Chinese regime and Chinese companies when required to do so.