FBI Builds China, Russia Crime Ties After 300 Arrests in $300 Million Dubai Raid
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Updated · tuko.co.ke · Aug 5
FBI Builds China, Russia Crime Ties After 300 Arrests in $300 Million Dubai Raid
3 articles · Updated · tuko.co.ke · Aug 5
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Kash Patel said the FBI has set up formal, narrowly scoped working groups with Chinese and Russian law enforcement to pursue fentanyl trafficking, cyber fraud and child sexual exploitation.
Operation Sand Dollar in May offered the clearest result so far: the FBI, China’s Ministry of Public Security and Dubai police made 300 arrests, seized $300 million and freed thousands of trafficked workers.
Those ties already include personnel exchanges, joint raids and intelligence sharing, with Chinese officials visiting the United States and FBI agents traveling to China on active cases; Patel returned from Beijing in late July.
U.S. counterintelligence officials have warned that sharing sensitive information with two authoritarian rivals carries espionage risks, but Patel said the cooperation is deliberately limited and aimed at producing “wins for America.”
A similar FBI trip to Russia is tentatively planned for October, underscoring a sharp break from longstanding U.S. policy that treated Beijing and Moscow mainly as criminal and espionage threats.