The three men on trial include two Chinese expatriates, Zheng Congying and Zhu Yong, and an American police sergeant turned private investigator, Michael McMahon.
Liu told jurors the government went after her husband “because he is upright, and he believes in justice … and he upset those in power.” She said she was targeted simply for being his wife.Īccording to prosecutors and Liu‘s testimony, the overall pressure campaign for her husband’s return took various forms: spreading damning articles about them to their adult daughter’s Facebook friends, sending letters in relatives’ names to the wife’s sister in New Jersey, and flying in the husband’s father, against his will, in 2017 to beseech his son to return to China. Chinese officials then issued international alerts that he was wanted on allegations of embezzlement and bribe-taking and that she was also wanted for allegedly accepting bribes.
Xu, once a city official in Wuhan, and his wife left China in 2010. Beijing has denied issuing threats to induce people to return “voluntarily.” China can’t legally compel suspects to return from the U.S., since the countries have no extradition treaty.
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