Australian Federal Police arrested Daniel Edmund Duggan, 54, on Oct. 21, 2022 in the rural town of Orange in New South Wales. He was denied bail and taken to the nearby Bathurst jail.Duggan is a former US citizen and the United States is reportedly working with the Australian government with formal extradition proceedings. Under Australia’s extradition treaty with the US, the US government will have 60 days to make an extradition request. The treaty allows Australian citizens to be extradited.After a decade of flying as a Harrier pilot in the US Marine Corps Duggan moved to Australia and started a business called Top Gun Tasmania, hiring former US and British military pilots to offer tourists joyrides in fighter jets.He also flew ex-military aircraft in Australian air shows.He moved to Beijing in 2014 and soon after sold Top Gun Tasmania.Starting in 2017 Duggan worked in Qingdao, China, as the managing director of AVIBIZ Limited, which was described as “a comprehensive aviation consultancy company with a focus on the fast-growing and dynamic Chinese Aviation Industry”.Hong Kong company records show AVIBIZ Limited was registered there by Duggan, who held an Australian passport in 2017 and dissolved in 2020.The indictment against Duggan, which was originally drawn up in 2017, was recently unsealed. The details of the indictment and were made public by several news outlets, including the Wall Street Journal.The indictment said the naturalized Australian “provided military training to (PRC) People’s Republic of China pilots” through a “test flying academy” in South Africa between 2010 and 2012. This is the same organization I mentioned in the previous episode that China has been using to recruit veteran western military pilots. This company has no official connection to the South African government.The indictment said Duggan was allegedly contracted to provide services to a Chinese state-owned company, including evaluations of Chinese military pilot trainees, testing of naval aviation related equipment, and instruction on tactics related to landing aircraft on aircraft carriers.Duggan also tricked the U.S. government into selling him a T-2 Buckeye training jet, which he intended to use to train Chinese pilots in carrier aviation techniques.Support this channel by using the SUPER THANKS (heart icon above) or by becoming a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/wardcarrollBuy one or all three of the books in the PUNK’S TRILOGY, Ward’s popular first three novels about life a Tomcat squadron, at https://www.usni.org/punks-trilogy-re…. Use the PUNKYT discount code at checkout for 25% off to YouTube channel subscribers.