肯尼亞在網絡黑客案中逮捕77名中國人
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya areconsulting technical experts to determine if 77 Chinese nationals arrested with advanced communications equipment in several houses in an upscale Nairobineigh borhood were committing espionage, an official said Thursday.
肯尼亞內羅畢（美聯社）——肯尼亞警方正在諮詢技術專家以決定被逮捕的77名中國人是否在進行間諜活動，這些中國人攜帶有先進的通信設備，在內羅畢一處高檔社區的幾棟房子裏被逮捕，一名官員週四說。The Chinese were arrested since the weekend with equipment that Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper said was capable of hacking into government servers.
肯尼亞《國家日報》稱這些設備有能力黑入政府的服務器。
"We have roped in experts to tell usif they were committing crimes of espionage," said Ndegwa Muhoro, the headof criminal investigations for Kenya's police. "These people seem to have been brought here specifically for a mission which we are investigating."
“就這些人是否犯有間諜罪，我們已經諮詢了專家，”肯尼亞警方的犯罪調查負責人Ndegwa Muhoro說。“這些人貌似是爲了某個特別的任務而被派到這裏來的，我們正在進行調查。”
The arrests began on Sunday, when computer equipment in one of the upscale houses the Chinese nationals had rented nearthe U.S. Embassy and U.N. headquarters caught fire, killing one ce said it appeared the group was manufacturing ATM cards, and that the suspects may have been involved in moneylaundering and Internet fraud. The case has caught the attention of the highest levels of Kenya's government as authorities investigate whether the group wasalso engaging in espionage.
逮捕開始於週日，這些中國人所租住的高檔公寓接近美國大使館和聯合國總部，其中一臺電腦設備起火，導致一人死亡。警方說這些人當時正在製造ATM卡片，並稱這些嫌疑人可能牽涉洗錢和網絡詐騙活動。這個案件獲得了肯尼亞政府高層官員的注意，當局還在調查這些人是否還從事間諜活動。The minister of foreign affairs and them inister of information communications and technology both were on hand Wednesday as police arrested 40 people. The Chinese ambassador was summoned tothe foreign affairs ministry over the arrests.
週三，警方逮捕40人時，肯尼亞外交部長和信息通信和技術部長都在場。中國大使就這個事件被招去了外交部。The 37 suspects arrested Sunday were charged with operating an illegal radio station. Many of those arrested cannot speak English and some don't have identification such as a passport, police detective Nicholas Kisavi said.
週日被逮捕的37人以運行一個非法電臺而遭到起訴。被逮捕的大多數人都不會講英語，有些人還沒有護照，一名警探稱。A woman at China's embassy in Kenya told The Associated Press on Thursday to call back on Friday to speak with anembassy spokesman.
肯尼亞中國大使館的一位女性工作人員週四要求美聯社在週五的時候再打電話過去採訪大使館的一位發言人。Fred Matiang'l, an official in Kenya's ministry of information, communications and technology, told the Daily Nationthat China has promised to send investigators to Kenya to work on the case.
肯尼亞信息通訊和技術部的一位官員說中國已經承諾向肯尼亞派遣調查員來調查這個案件。
