A Chinese national claiming to conduct research as a “visiting scholar” at a prestigious Michigan university now finds herself facing a long prison term after pleading no contest this week to three smuggling charges and making false statements to federal officers.

Chengxuan Han, also a Ph.D. candidate at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, pleaded no contest this week in a Detroit federal court to sending four packages from China containing concealed biological materials to colleagues working in a University of Michigan laboratory.

The incident is the most recent criminal case involving Chinese students possessing potential hazardous biological materials at the University of Michigan (U-M).

As Breitbart News reported , in June the U.S. Attorney’s office i

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