A California man is sentenced to one year in prison for stealing rare Chinese manuscripts from the UCLA library. The US Department of Justice says Jeffrey Ying, 39, gained access to several classic works—some dating back centuries—by using multiple aliases. According to court records described by outlets, Ying would check the manuscripts out from the library and later return them with fake documents instead of the originals. Prosecutors say the scheme involved borrowing the manuscripts and substituting dummy versions upon return. The Courthouse News report adds that the manuscripts relate to China’s Qing dynasty. Ying pleads guilty to a single count of theft of major artwork, and the sentence follows the discovery of the substitution. After the thefts were identified, authorities pursued the case under federal charges, and Ying is held responsible for the theft of the manuscripts from the university library.
US man sentenced for stealing rare Chinese manuscripts from UCLA library
A California man is sentenced to one year in prison for stealing rare Chinese manuscripts from the UCLA library. The US Department of Justice says Jeffrey Ying, 39, gained access to several classic wo...
- Jeffrey Ying, 39, is sentenced to one year in prison.
- He pleads guilty to one count of theft of major artwork.
- He borrows rare Chinese manuscripts from UCLA and returns dummy or fake manuscripts.
- Prosecutors say he uses multiple aliases to gain access to the library’s holdings.
- Some of the stolen works date to China’s Qing dynasty and are centuries old.
A California man who swapped a library’s 17th century Chinese manuscript for a fake was jailed for a year on Wednesday after admitting to stealing a major artwork. Jeffrey Ying used a number of aliases to gain access to classic works, some over 600 years old, at the library of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the US Department of Justice said. Ying, 39, would check the works out and return days later with dummy manuscripts. He would frequently travel to China shortly thereafter,...
3 hours agoLOS ANGELES — A man in San Francisco was sentenced to a year in prison for stealing rare Chinese manuscripts, dating back to the Qing dynasty, from the UCLA library. He pleaded guilty to a single count of theft of major artwork after it was discovered he would borrow the manuscripts from the library and return a dummy to the library.
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