US LANL scientist pleads guilty to lying about involvement with Chinese govt program

A former Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) scientist has reportedly pleed guilty to lying about his involvement with China's Thousand Talents Program. Turab Lookman reportedly entered his plea on January 24 during a hearing in Albuquerque after reaching an agreement with prosecutors. According to international media reports, Lookman was awaiting sentencing, which could include up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. 

67-year-old was initially indicted on three counts of making false statements and his attorney h earlier said that prosecutors have failed to prove that Lookman h accessed or downloed any high-level information before he was fired from US laboratory in New Mexico. Lookman h been charged Back in May 2019 for lying to LANL counterintelligence about being recruited by Thousand Talents Program. However, it was later found that Lookman h actually applied for and was eventually asked to participate in program for monetary compensation. 

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According to reports, authorities said that 67-year-old came under scrutiny after he h told one of his co-workers that he h citizenship in four different countries. Later when he was asked if any foreign national h offered him a job or if he h applied for one, he h falsely answered to all questions. 

According to international media reports, Lookman h joined LANL in 1999. He was also named a Laboratory Fellow in 2017, one of LANL's highest awards for its scientific staff. In total Lookman has received at least two awards for his work. He is also a computational physics expert and also a co-author of two books. 

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Thousand Talents Program

Thousand Talents was started back in 2008 as an effort to attract successful Chinese people abro to return home to boost ecomy, however, prosecutors believe that Chinese program was established by China to recruit people with access to and kwledge of foreign techlogy and intellectual property. According to reports, program was also kwn as one of many of country's state initiatives aimed at reversing a deces-long China brain drain. In 2018 its was also reportedly emerged that program h become subject of US government investigations. 

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