Jan 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Tuesday said it unveiled a criminal case accusing Charles Lieber, chair of Harvard University's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, with lying about his participation in China's Thousand Talents Plan.

According to a court filing, Lieber made materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statements to the U.S. Department of Defense about his role in the plan, and to the National Institutes of Health about that role and also his affiliation with the Wuhan University of Technology in China.

Lieber was charged with one count of making false statements to a U.S. government agency, according to court records. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

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