Truth Behind the White Powder in the Coffee Machine... Poisoned a Prominent Colleague Out of Jealousy

A Chinese international student has been arrested by police after allegedly poisoning a fellow graduate student's drink at a US university, causing severe injury, and attempting to flee to China.

According to the Associated Press, 32-year-old Chinese national Aili Wang, a master's and doctoral student in microbiology at the University of Wyoming, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on October 6 and is currently in custody.

The victim was identified as a Vietnamese graduate student who was awaiting a patent application in the field of disease treatment technology.

Beginning in August, the victim started experiencing severe symptoms such as extreme fatigue, insomnia, finger numbness, and leg weakness.

One day, while making tea using the coffee machine on the office desk, the victim noticed a strange taste.

Consequently, the victim's wife and people around them evaporated the water from the coffee machine, and subsequently delivered 63 milligrams of the extracted white powder to the police.

The substance was revealed to be acrylamide, a neurotoxic substance.

Closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage inside the laboratory obtained by the police showed Wang photographing the victim's research notes and rinsing the victim's cup with liquid from Wang's own cup.

Investigations showed that Wang had harbored jealousy toward the victim, who had achieved great success in research on new technologies related to cancer and genetic disease treatments, after Wang failed the first round of her thesis defense.

If convicted in court, Wang faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

At the prosecutors' request, the Wyoming court significantly increased Wang's bail from the previous 200,000 dollars (approx. 270 million won) to 1.5 million dollars (approx. 2 billion won).

(Photo: AP/Yonhap News)
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