A Chinese scientist in California had been secretly passing confidential mRNA cancer vaccine research to her husband to benefit his lab in China, a federal agent is alleging in a recently filed criminal complaint.
For about five years, Chen Lianchun, who resides in San Diego, had been sending documents from her employer that were marked confidential to her husband Wu Chenyan, who ran a biotech laboratory in China, according to the complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California on Dec. 8.
