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FBI offers $10K reward to help find missing Chinese scholar

June 24, 2017 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Yingying Zhang

URBANA, Ill. (AP) — The FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information that’ll help locate a visiting scholar from China who disappeared from the University of Illinois.

Twenty-six-year-old Yingying Zhang was about a month into a yearlong appointment at the central Illinois university when she disappeared June 9.

Campus police say surveillance video shows her entering a black Saturn Astra vehicle in Urbana that afternoon. Her friends told authorities she had gone out to sign a lease.

Authorities have labeled the case a kidnapping, but aren’t ruling anything out. The FBI announced the reward on June 17.

Zhang was working in the university’s Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, researching photosynthesis and crop productivity. University officials say Zhang’s visiting scholar appointment runs through April 2018.

She is from Jianyang, China.

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Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2017, VOL 36 NO 26 | JUNE 24 - JUNE 30, YINGYING ZHANG

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