India, June 10 -- A Chinese national has been accused ofsmuggling biological materials into the United States for work at aUniversity of Michigan laboratory. Chengxuan Han, of the People's Republic of China, has been charged with smuggling goods into the US and making false statements, CBS News reported.

According to authorities, Han is a doctoral student at the College of Life Science and Technology in the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China. A criminal complaint states that in 2024 and 2025, Han sent four packages containing concealed biological material to the US from China. The packages had been addressed to people associated with a University of Michigan laboratory.

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