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China: Researcher Sentenced to One Year for Attempted Smuggling A biological researcher at Cornell University in New York has been sentenced to a year in jail for attempting to travel to China with more than 250 containers holding biological agents, the Associated Press reported today. Yin Qingqiang, a Chinese citizen and a former postdoctoral research associate, was arrested at Syracuse Hancock International Airport July 28, 2002, as he was boarding a flight to Shanghai. Yin was convicted of property theft and lying to the FBI. He has already served two months of his sentence. The stolen containers — vials, test tubes and Petri dishes — held bacteria and yeast cultures for livestock food production, AP reported. Cornell’s laboratory employees sign a waiver acknowledging that their work and material belong to the school, according to lab director Xingen Lei. Yin said that he was never told that he could not remove the biological agents, AP reported (Associated Press/New York Post, June 12).
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