According to his attorney, a former US Marine pilot who is battling extradition from Australia due to allegations that he trained Chinese military pilots to land on aircraft carriers had unintentionally collaborated with a Chinese hacker.
Australian citizen Daniel Duggan, 55, expressed concern in a court document saw by Reuters that inquiries for private information from Western intelligence services were endangering his family.
The attorney’s submission backs up Reuters’s findings that connect Duggan to Chinese defense hacker Su Bin, who was found guilty.
The claims that Duggan violated US arms control legislation are refuted. After his arrest in 2022, he spent six years working in Beijing and returned to Australia, where he is currently being held in a maximum security prison.
In the March submission to Australian Attorney General Mark Dreyfus—who will decide whether to hand over Duggan to the US following a magistrate’s hearing on Duggan’s extradition case—Duggan’s attorney Bernard Collaery stated that US authorities had discovered correspondence with Duggan on electronic devices seized from Su Bin.
Two years after his arrest in rural Australia, when Britain was cautioning its former military pilots not to work for China, the matter will be tried in a Sydney court this month.
