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Former military pilot arrested in Australia listed same Beijing address as Chinese hacker
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Daniel Edmund Duggan, 54, is an ex-US citizen who once ran a flying company called 'Top Gun Tasmania.' He was arrested by federal police in Australia in October on request of the US government.
His arrest came amid mounting concern in both the United States and United Kingdom about military personnel selling their services to foreign rivals.
Duggan, who reached the rank of major, flew Harrier jump jets in the Marines and was an air combat instructor before leaving the armed forces and moving to Australia, where he set up a company offering 'adventure flights' in fast jets according to the website of Top Gun Australia.
A review of company filings for Top Gun to the Australian corporate regulator showed Duggan had certified a change of address and his sale of the company in January and April 2014, stating his residential address from December 2013 was an apartment in Beijing's Chaoyang district.
The same address appeared on the US Entity List in August 2014 as belonging to Su Bin - aka Stephen Su - and his aviation technology company Nuodian Technology, also known as Lode Tech in English language marketing material.
Su Bin, 51, was arrested in Canada in July 2014 and jailed in the United States two years later, in a high-profile hacking case involving the theft of US military aircraft designs by the Chinese military in which he pleaded guilty, court records show.
He was sentenced to a 46 months in prison in 2016 by a Los Angeles court after being charged with taking part in a years-long scheme by Chinese military officers to obtain sensitive military information.
The address, Building 1-1, No. 67 Caiman Street, Chaoyang Road, remains on the US blacklist for involvement in the unauthorized exploitation of US Department of Defense contractor computer systems to illicitly obtain controlled technology related to military projects.
The US Entity List, which refers to both company names, is a trade blacklist of people and companies deemed to pose a risk to national security.
He pleaded guilty to conspiring with two Chinese air force officers who hacked into the computer systems of Boeing and other companies to obtain data about military projects, violating the arms export control act.
A former military pilot said that Duggan, who became an aviation consultant after his military service, moved from Australia to Beijing in 2013/2014 to work with a Chinese businessman named Stephen.
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Shown a photograph by a reporter, the former military pilot identified Su, the Chinese businessman convicted on hacking charges in the United States, but did not supply details about the business the two were involved in.
Duggan's LinkedIn profile also said he was in China during this time. Details of the American arrest warrant and the charges Duggan faces are sealed, his lawyer said.
'He denies having breached any US law, any Australian law, any international law,' Duggan's lawyer Dennis Miralis said outside a Sydney court on Friday.
Miralis said Duggan was being moved to a maximum security prison in the regional town of Goulburn and that he did not seek bail at the directions hearing in the Sydney local court. The matter was adjourned until November 28.
He arrived in Australia from China weeks before his arrest and had interacted with Australian intelligence agencies, his lawyer said. He did not name the agencies, provide details on what was under investigation or Duggan's possible role in it.
When Reuters visited the Beijing address this week the reporter was told it was a residential building and denied entry.
The blacklist also cites a second address for Nuodian Technology and Su Bin, in an office complex next to the residential building. Reuters was told by a building manager someone from Nuodian Technology had opened an office there, but added the company moved out seven to eight years ago. This is around the time of Su Bin's arrest.
Chinese company records show Nuodian Technology first registered a Beijing office in 2003.
Miralis said he would lodge a complaint with Australia's inspector-general of intelligence, an oversight body, about matters which touch on Australia's national security.
The inspector-general's office declined to comment. Miralis said the United States should not make an extradition request until this complaint was resolved.
Under Australia's extradition treaty with the United States, an extradition request must be made within 60 days of arrest.
'It's important to understand the legal system in Australia has not yet seized jurisdiction of the matter, we are more in the area of international relations, and it is a decision for the United States State Department to determine whether or not it wishes to send an extradition request to Australia,' Miralis said.
'This has nothing to do with law, this has everything to do with international politics and international relations.'
The United States Department of Justice has declined to comment about Duggan's case. Australia's Attorney General's Department said it could not give details of any possible extradition request and China's foreign ministry said it was 'not aware of this situation', in response to Reuters written questions.
Robert Anello, the lawyer who represented Su Bin in the 2014 hacking case, declined to comment and Su Bin could not be reached for comment.
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