Exclusive | Top aide to embattled NYPD commissioner Edward Caban linked to Chinese Communist Party

A top aide to embattled New York Police Department commissioner Edward Caban is associated with shadowy groups who do the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party, The Post has learned.Lin Gui’an was also “handpicked” by Mayor Eric Adams for his high-ranking job as Assistant Director of the Police Commissioner Liaison Unit, despite having limited police experience, sources said.Lin, 49, was vice chairman of one non-profit linked to a web of CCP-controlled community groups and school associations, known as United Front, for 12 years, according to records viewed by The Post.He has also been pictured attended events alongside prominent members of United Front groups or sponsored by them.The role of United Front is to spread Chinese propaganda in the US, overseen by the United Front Work Department, funded and controlled by the central government in China.Lin’s ties come under scrutiny at a time of heightened awareness of Chinese influence in New York, after the arrest of Linda Sun, a former aide to Gov.

Kathy Hochul last week.Sun is charged with 10 criminal counts, including money laundering, visa fraud, conspiring to act as a foreign agent for China and other crimes.She has pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn federal court.Lin has been described by sources as Caban’s “right hand.” The commissioner is himself under pressure after he and others were raided by federal agents last week.Although the reason for the raid has not been made public, sources said the investigation prompting the raid centers around “undue” influence on the NYPD from China and Turkey.Lin also has close ties to Winnie Greco, a controversial Adams aide who is a special advisor and director of Asian affairs.

Greco is also under probe by federal authorities looking for private emails and records of trips she organized to China for Adams when he was Brooklyn Borough President, The Post revealed in June.Greco’s Bronx home was also raided by the FBI in February.She has denied any misc...