Chinese Research Student Sentenced to Time Served for Smuggling Biological Research Materials into the US

A Chinese research student accused of smuggling biological materials into the U.S. for work at a University of Michigan laboratory has been sentenced to time served and will return to China. 

On Wednesday, Chengxuan Han, 28, of the People’s Republic of China, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Matthew Leitman.

In August, Han, who is a doctoral student at the College of Life Science and Technology in the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, pleaded no contest to three smuggling charges and to making false statements to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers. 

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