Washington DC, Nov. 7 -- The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that three additional Chinese researchers affiliated with the University of Michigan have been charged with smuggling biological materials from China to the United States as part of a major development on the growing concerns about China's misuse of academic exchange programmes, as reported by The Epoch Times.

According to The Epoch Times, in a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Bai Xu and Zhang Fengfan face charges of conspiring to smuggle biological materials. At the same time, Zhang Zhiyong is accused of lying to federal agents. The trio was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Octobe...