Indictment out of Utah
Grand jury indicts Syracuse man on charges he spied for China
By Annie Knox, KSL | Posted Jun 23rd, 2018 @ 9:00am
SALT LAKE CITY — A federal grand jury has indicted a former U.S. intelligence officer from Utah on charges alleging he spied for the Chinese government in exchange for $800,000.
Jurors on Wednesday decided there is enough evidence against Ron Rockwell Hansen, 58, of Syracuse, to support charges filed by federal prosecutors, including: attempting to gather or deliver defense information; being an unregistered agent of a foreign government; three counts of bulk cash smuggling; eight counts of structuring money transactions; and two counts of smuggling goods from the United States.
If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to life in prison.
From 2013 to 2017, Hansen traveled to and from China, going to military and intelligence conferences and passing on what he learned to people with ties to China's intelligence service, even though he had signed nondisclosure agreements, according to the 41-page indictment.
Hansen allegedly sold the classified national defense information for at least $800,000, charges state. That included a $300,000 "consulting" fee.
Federal agents arrested Hansen in Seattle in May as he was preparing to board a flight to China. No attorney was listed for him in court documents.
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