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Harvard professor convicted by US jury of lying about China ties
A Harvard University professor was convicted on Tuesday of US charges that he lied about his ties to a China-run recruitment programme in a closely-watched case stemming from a crackdown on Chinese influence within US research.
A federal jury in Boston found Charles Lieber, a renowned nanoscientist and the former chairperson of Harvard's chemistry department, guilty of making false statements to authorities, filing false tax returns and failing to report a Chinese bank account.
Prosecutors alleged that Lieber, in his quest for a Nobel Prize, in 2011 agreed to become a "strategic scientist" at Wuhan University of Technology in China and...
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