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An FBI investigation into a threat to U.S. national security — with military secrets apparently being given to the Chinese government — has landed at the door of a McGill professor.

Last week, RCMP officers raided the Brossard home of McGill associate professor Ishiang Shih, who teaches electrical and computer engineering.

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According to an FBI affidavit, money was transferred by wire from the U.S. to a Brossard company registered in Shih’s name. The money was sent by Shih’s brother, Yi-Chi Shih — who is also an associate professor of engineering at the University of California in Los Angeles.

Yi-Chi Shih was arrested Friday, Jan. 19 in Pasadena along with Kiet Ahn Mai. Federal prosecutors say the men conspired to have a U.S. company make special high-speed computer chips that were illegally exported to a Chinese company connected to Shih, according to the affidavit. The affidavit alleged a scheme to defraud a U.S. company of its technology and divert it to China unlawfully.