The Chinese regime used a former U.S. hip-hop artist to lobby the FBI to help locate a Chinese dissident in the United States who was being sought by Beijing officials, according to U.S. prosecutors.
Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, 48, a former member of the 1990s hip-hop group the Fugees, engaged in the campaign under the direction of a Malaysian financier named Low Taek Jho, also known as Jho Low, and an unnamed vice minister of China’s public security, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a June 11 statement.
