两名中国研究人员被控走私危险真菌入美 拟在密歇根大学实验室研究
美国司法部密歇根东区联邦检察官办公室2025年6月3日宣布，中国公民 Yunqing Jian（33岁）与 Zunyong Liu（34岁）被以刑事诉状指控共谋、走私货物入境、作不实陈述与签证欺诈，两人被指合谋把一种危险真菌带入美国，拟在密歇根州沃什特诺县安娜堡市的密歇根大学实验室开展研究。联邦调查局已逮捕 Jian，她当日下午在底特律联邦法院首次出庭。
检方称，被走私的真菌是禾谷镰刀菌（Fusarium graminearum），科学文献将其列为潜在的农业恐怖主义武器。这种有害真菌引发小麦、大麦、玉米与水稻的赤霉病，每年在全球造成数十亿美元经济损失，其毒素还会导致人畜呕吐、肝损伤与生殖缺陷。
诉状称，Jian 在中国从事该病原体研究并接受中国政府资助，其电子设备中存有描述她对中国共产党的成员身份与忠诚的信息。诉状还称，Jian 的男友 Liu 在中国一所大学从事同一病原体研究，他先否认、后承认经底特律都会机场把禾谷镰刀菌走私入境，目的就是在 Jian 工作的密歇根大学实验室里研究它。
联邦检察官 Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr. 表示，两名被告被指把一种被称为潜在农业恐怖主义武器的真菌走私进美国腹地，属最严重的国家安全关切。联邦调查局底特律外勤办公室主管特工 Cheyvoryea Gibson 与海关与边境保护局外勤业务主任 Marty C. Raybon 共同宣布指控。本案由联邦调查局与海关与边境保护局调查。检方提醒，刑事诉状只是指控，不构成有罪证据。
关联：密歇根大学中国留学生被控在2024年大选中非法投票 检方称其已潜逃上海
（来源：美国司法部密歇根东区联邦检察官办公室）
Two Chinese Nationals Charged with Smuggling Dangerous Fungus into U.S. for Work at University of Michigan Lab
On June 3, 2025, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced that Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, citizens of China, had been charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the United States, false statements, and visa fraud. The two allegedly conspired to bring a dangerous fungus into the United States for research at a University of Michigan laboratory in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan. The FBI arrested Jian, who was to appear that afternoon in federal court in Detroit for her initial appearance.
Prosecutors said the smuggled fungus was Fusarium graminearum, which scientific literature classifies as a potential agroterrorism weapon. The noxious fungus causes head blight, a disease of wheat, barley, maize, and rice, and is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year. Its toxins cause vomiting, liver damage, and reproductive defects in humans and livestock.
According to the complaint, Jian received Chinese government funding for her work on this pathogen in China, and her electronics contain information describing her membership in and loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party. The complaint further alleges that Liu, her boyfriend, works at a Chinese university where he conducts research on the same pathogen, and that he first lied but then admitted to smuggling Fusarium graminearum into America through Detroit Metropolitan Airport so that he could conduct research on it at the University of Michigan laboratory where Jian worked.
U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr. said the alleged actions, including those of a loyal member of the Chinese Communist Party, are of the gravest national security concerns. The charges were announced with FBI Detroit Special Agent in Charge Cheyvoryea Gibson and CBP Director of Field Operations Marty C. Raybon. The FBI and CBP are investigating the case. Prosecutors noted that a complaint is only a charge and is not evidence of guilt.
(Source: U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan)
来源：美国司法部密歇根东区联邦检察官办公室
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图片来源：图：位于密歇根州沃什特诺县安娜堡市的密歇根大学 Randall 实验室大楼（资料图），两名被告被指拟在该校实验室研究走私入境的真菌。Michael Barera 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The Randall Laboratory building at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan (file photo); the defendants allegedly intended to research the smuggled fungus at a university laboratory. Photo by Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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