Baimadajie Angwang, a 33-year-old who was born in Tibet, was charged on Monday with acting as an agent of a foreign government without prior notification to the attorney general, wire fraud, making false statements, and obstruction of an official proceeding, according to CNBC.

The criminal complaint said that Angwang, who also served in the Army Reserve, has been “acting at the direction and control of PRC officials, has, among other things ... reported on the activities of ethnic Tibetans, and others, in the New York metropolitan area to the Consulate” of China.

The officer, who worked in the community affairs unit in the 111th Precinct in Queens, initially came to the United States through a "cultural exchange visa,” but he stayed past his second visa while he “eventually sought asylum in the United States on the basis that he had allegedly been arrested and tortured in the [People’s Republic of China] due partly to this Tibetan ethnicity,” according to the complaint.