Feds launch probe of UC Berkeley over hiding millions in funding from China, other countries

WASHINGTON — The Department of Education launched an investigation of nan University of California, Berkeley, Friday for allegedly moving afoul of national rule by failing to study hundreds of millions of dollars successful overseas backing — including from China, according to elder management officials.

UC Berkeley raked successful $220 cardinal from Chinese authorities officials to build a field successful nan metropolis of Shenzhen — but ne'er reported nan costs contempt its value tag exceeding nan $250,000 mandatory disclosure period of conception 117 of nan Higher Education Act.

Those payments were antecedently disclosed arsenic portion of a House committee investigation successful 2023 — but a elder Education Department charismatic told reporters Friday that “hundreds of millions of dollars” will now beryllium combed through.

The investigation will besides uncover whether important US technologies were transferred to Chinese state-linked entities arsenic portion of nan arrangement.

“They’ll person 30 days to respond pinch nan records that we requested, and truthful we dream to person rather a measurement of records and we’ll beryllium capable to verify nan grade to which UC-Berkeley is aliases is not compliant aft our introspection of those records,” an Education Department charismatic told reporters.

The Post reached retired to Berkeley reps for comment.