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30 Jun, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Exclusive: Scientists who were fired from a Winnipeg lab — a Level-4 facility equipped to handle some of the world’s most dangerous viruses — are under RCMP investigation for possible transfer of intellectual property to China.

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The RCMP are investigating whether two scientists dismissed from Canada’s top-security infectious disease laboratory passed on Canadian intellectual property to China, including to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

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The investigation centres on the possibility that materials such as plasma DNA molecules, which could be used to recreate vaccines or viruses, were transferred to Chinese authorities without the approval of the Public Health Agency, a source said.

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The RCMP is also investigating how two People’s Liberation Army scientists gained access to the Winnipeg lab.

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Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, recently relocated to China after they were fired in January from the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg, The Globe has learned.

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“She was flagged by CSIS as maybe sharing intellectual property with people in Wuhan without proper documentation,” Gary Kobinger, who shared a Governor-General’s award with Dr. Qiu for ground-breaking research on Ebola, said of the fired scientist.

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