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US man Jeffrey Ying jailed for stealing rare Chinese manuscript from UCLA
Jeffrey Ying was jailed for stealing a rare 17th-century Chinese manuscript from UCLA by replacing it with a fake. He used multiple aliases to access and swap the manuscript at the university library.
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