AUTHORITIES IN BRITAIN HAVE arrested two individuals on charges of espionage, among them a researcher for the British parliament who is being investigated for spying for China.
According to the British newspaper
The Sunday Times,
the two individuals were arrested on March 13 of this year in two
different addresses. One of the suspects, reportedly in their 30s, was
arrested in or around the city of Oxford. The other, reportedly an
individual in their mid-20s, was apprehended in the Scottish capital
Edinburgh.
A third address, located in an eastern
borough or London, was also searched by the Counter-Terrorism Command of
the Metropolitan Police, which is leading the investigation into the
two suspects. Notably, the parliamentary researcher had worked for
prominent members of the Conservative Party, including members of
parliament. These reportedly included Alicia Kearns, who chairs the
Foreign Affairs Select Committee of the British House of Commons. The Times reported that the suspect had also worked for the Minister of State for Security Tom Tugendhat. The Guardian newspaper reported
that Tugendhat said he had not been in touch with the suspect since he
assumed his current ministerial role in September of 2022. Kearns did
not comment on the case.
The last time a British newspaper reported claims of Chinese espionage was in February of 2021, when The Telegraph
reported on the expulsion of three Chinese citizens, who were working
as journalists. The paper claimed that the three had been “quietly
expelled” after they were caught carrying out espionage. Citing an
anonymous “government source”, The Telegraph said that,
according to Britain’s Security Service (MI5), the three Chinese
journalists were in reality employees of China’s Ministry of State
Security. The report did not provide details about when the three
Chinese citizens had been expelled, saying only that the expulsions had
occurred at different times in the previous year.
According to The Times, the two
suspects who were arrested in last March were initially transferred to a
south London police station, where they were arraigned. They were then
released on bail and are expected to appear in court in October.
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