Chris Cash, an employee at Britain’s parliament building, is being investigated by the UK police’s Counter Terrorism Command after claims surfaced that he is a Chinese spy.
The British parliamentary aide accused of spying for Beijing says he’s no Chinese mole and that his work with an internal Conservative party pressure group on China was about educating others about the country’s Communist party.
by the Met Police’s Counter Terrorism Command which inquires into allegations of breaches of the Official Secrets Act.“I feel forced to respond to the media accusations that I am a ‘Chinese spy’,” he said. “I have spent my career to date trying to educate others about the challenge and threats presented by the Chinese Communist Party.”Cash’s statement was released by Birnberg Peirce Solicitors, the same law firm representing the ISIS bride Shamima Begum, who was stripped of her UK citizenship after travelling to Syria to join the terrorist organisation when she was a teenager., which first reported the story, said it was believed he was flipped, becoming a mole for Beijing.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has made a strong statement on China in the wake of a scandal involving an alleged spy.It also forced UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to deliver an unusually stern statement on China to the House of Commons.
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