Man jailed for swapping rare Chinese manuscript with fake at UCLA

Jeffrey Ying has been sentenced to one year in prison for stealing a rare 17th-century Chinese manuscript from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Ying used aliases to borrow valuable historical texts from the UCLA library, replacing them with sophisticated forgeries before traveling to China. The scheme was uncovered when UCLA's library system noticed several missing manuscripts, leading to an investigation that identified Ying and the discovery of dummy manuscripts at his hotel. AI

RANK_REASON This is a criminal case involving theft of library property, not an AI-related event.

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• Alan Fujimori
• China
• Jeffrey Ying
• Los Angeles
• United States Department of Justice
• University of California, Los Angeles

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