肯尼亚在网络黑客案中逮捕77名中国人
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.
肯尼亚内罗毕（美联社）——肯尼亚警方正在咨询技术专家以决定被逮捕的77名中国人是否在进行间谍活动，这些中国人携带有先进的通信设备，在内罗毕一处高档社区的几栋房子里被逮捕，一名官员周四说。The Chinese were arrested since the weekend with equipment that Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper said was capable of hacking into government servers.
肯尼亚《国家日报》称这些设备有能力黑入政府的服务器。
"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."
“就这些人是否犯有间谍罪，我们已经咨询了专家，”肯尼亚警方的犯罪调查负责人Ndegwa Muhoro说。“这些人貌似是为了某个特别的任务而被派到这里来的，我们正在进行调查。”
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.
逮捕开始于周日，这些中国人所租住的高档公寓接近美国大使馆和联合国总部，其中一台电脑设备起火，导致一人死亡。警方说这些人当时正在制造ATM卡片，并称这些嫌疑人可能牵涉洗钱和网络诈骗活动。这个案件获得了肯尼亚政府高层官员的注意，当局还在调查这些人是否还从事间谍活动。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.
周三，警方逮捕40人时，肯尼亚外交部长和信息通信和技术部长都在场。中国大使就这个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.
周日被逮捕的37人以运行一个非法电台而遭到起诉。被逮捕的大多数人都不会讲英语，有些人还没有护照，一名警探称。A woman at China's embassy in Kenya told The Associated Press on Thursday to call back on Friday to speak with anembassy spokesman.
肯尼亚中国大使馆的一位女性工作人员周四要求美联社在周五的时候再打电话过去采访大使馆的一位发言人。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.
肯尼亚信息通讯和技术部的一位官员说中国已经承诺向肯尼亚派遣调查员来调查这个案件。
