Former US Navy sailor jailed for 16 years for selling ship secrets to Chinese contact

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Source: scmp.com
Former US Navy sailor jailed for 16 years for selling ship secrets to Chinese contact
A former US Navy sailor convicted of selling technical and operating manuals for ships and operating systems to an intelligence officer working for China was sentenced Monday to more than 16 years in prison, prosecutors said. A federal judge in San Diego sentenced Jinchao Wei, 25, to 200 months. A federal jury convicted Wei in August of six crimes, including espionage. He was paid more than US$12,000 for the information he sold, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. Wei, an engineer...