Exclusive | Chinese developer who allegedly bribed top Eric Adams adviser has links to CCP, bankrolled secret police station

The man accused of bribing a top Eric Adams adviser in a $120,000 scheme has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.Yan Po Zhu, 51, also known as Andy Zhu, and Frank Carone, a lawyer and Adams’ former chief of staff, were arrested this week along with three others on fraud and money laundering charges.Zhu — who allegedly made payments to Carone in exchange for a contract to house migrants at his Queens hotel in 2022, per court documents — donated $100,000 to American Changle Association in 2018 and has long associated with suspected CCP agent Linda Sun.American Changle Association operated a Chinatown police station used to spy on dissidents originally from the country, as first reported by The Post. Last month, “Harry” Lu Jianwang, the group’s president, was convicted of acting as a foreign agent for China in connection with operating the illegal police station for the Chinese government.On Thursday, The Post spotted Brookville Police officers removing long guns from Zhu’s sprawling six-bedroom mansion on Long Island’s North Shore in an early morning raid — the second time this week law enforcement targeted the property in the ritzy Glen Head enclave.A spokesman for Brooklyn federal court told The Post that Zhu owns “multiple” guns and had to surrender them as a condition of his pre-trial release.Zhu’s 2018 donation to the American Changle Association made up the bulk of the group’s $136,000 donations that year, according to public records.A year earlier, when the nonprofit was first registered with the IRS, Zhu and his father donated $40,000 to the group, which billed itself as a “social gathering place for Fujianese people,” according to Chinese media reports.Zhu, who has pleaded not guilty to federal bribery and fraud charges, was hit on Wednesday with an $8 million bond — four times more than the $2 million levied on Carone — because prosecutors deem him a flight risk.They described him as a Chinese national “with exten...