WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has charged 13 individuals who tried to “unlawfully exert influence in the United States” for the People’s Republic of China, U.S. officials allege.

Attorney General Merrick Garland rolled out three different cases involving separate alleged schemes during a press conference on Monday. One case charges seven Chinese nationals with trying to forcefully repatriate a Chinese national. Four others were charged with charged in an intelligence scheme that allegedly targeted individuals in the U.S. to act on China’s behalf. And two other men were charged with interfering in a U.S. criminal prosecution of a global telecommunications company.

In the third case, DOJ does not name the company involved, but the details of the complaint against defendants Guochun He and Zheng Wang match up to an Eastern District of New York prosecution of Huawei, a Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer which the U.S. previously charged with stealing trade secret and intellectual property information.

The complaint says the pair tried to recruit an unnamed informant, whom they allegedly paid $61,000 in Bitcoin in exchange for what they believed was confidential information about the Justice Department’s investigation and criminal prosecution of the company. Asked during the press conference Monday whether Huawei had any connection to He or Wang, a DOJ official declined to confirm the identity of the company in the complaint.

“As these cases demonstrate, the government of China sought to interfere with the rights and freedoms of individuals in the United States and to undermine our judicial system that protects those rights. They did not succeed,” Garland said. “The Justice Department will not tolerate attempts by any foreign power to undermine the rule of law upon which our democracy is based.”

Garland was joined at the press conference by Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew G. Olsen and other Justice Department officials.