Foreign 'Fauci acolyte' and his African crony charged with smuggling monkeypox onto American soil

https://www.theblaze.com/news/foreign-national-fauci-acolyte-and-his-african-crony-charged-with-smuggling-monkeypox-onto-american-soil

JOSEPH MACKINNON

JUNE 03, 2026

The researchers, both of whom are noncitizens, were behind a recent study assessing whether the West was prepared for a major spread of monkeypox.

A pair of foreigners employed at a controversial U.S. biolab were charged on Tuesday with conspiracy to smuggle monkeypox onto American soil and giving false statements to federal law enforcement.

Vincent Munster — a 53-year-old Dutch citizen who is the chief of the virus ecology section at Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a National Institutes of Health Biosafety Level 4 research facility in Hamilton, Montana — and one of his underlings, a 38-year-old Cameroonian national named Claude Kwe, were caught by Customs and Border Patrol officials with a black case allegedly full of viral materials at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Jan. 25.

'This is bigger than a customs charge.'

The duo allegedly told CBP agents that the case — which they had traveled with from the Congo, where a major monkeypox outbreak was underway — contained diagnostics and testing equipment. Federal agents discovered, however, that the case actually contained 113 vials in Styrofoam containers, the Justice Department said in a release.

According to the DOJ, an FBI analysis of 20 of the 113 vials showed that 17 contained deactivated monkeypox virus, one contained the chickenpox virus, and two contained human DNA.