"Lieber became a ""Strategic Scientist"" at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China and was a contractual participant in China's Thousand Talents Plan from in or about 2012 to 2017,"" the statement said. It also mentioned that Lieber was paid $50,000 per month by WUT, along with a fund of $1.5 million to set up a research lab at Wuhan. He was arrested for fraud but this was not linked to the coronavirus.

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