Alongside his active interest in business ventures, Yang has maintained a lively political presence, and has been an outspoken supporter of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the United States.
A Chinese-American man arrested by the FBI on suspicion of stealing reams of proprietary code from his former employer, the CME Group, has deep ties with the Chinese Communist Party and its overseas patriotic organizations.
Yang Chunlai, 49, was taken into custody on July 1 at his office in Chicago. He was discovered to have downloaded thousands of files to flash drives, including many critical files that are considered proprietary in nature and contain protected source codes, according to the FBI.
Yang may have stolen the information in connection with a Hong Kong futures exchange firm in which he is an investor and the head technical person, according to Reuters, which quoted an affidavit obtained from the FBI.
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