Linhao Lin – aka Jimmy Lin – hosted Alex Salmond while he was first minister and attended Holyrood.
The man behind a Glasgow restaurant accused of being a Chinese secret police station has wined and dined senior Scottish politicians, The Herald on Sunday can reveal.
Chinese secret police used methods like “online or physical means” and “threats and harassment to family members” to persuade 230,000 overseas citizens to return and face potential criminal charges in China in recent years, it said. The SFCC, which Safeguard Defenders claimed is linked to the Chinese state, is registered at the Sichuan House restaurant.
Lin was pictured alongside Salmond and Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, a former SNP MP turned Alba Party chair who “facilitated” the event. A member of Fuzhou’s local government also visited Edinburgh in 2018 to co-sign a letter of intent with Ross to strengthen ties between the Fujian and Scottish capitals. City of EdinburghLin has also visited Holyrood. Minutes of a 2018 cross party group on China list Awei and Jimmy Lin of the SFCC as attendees.
A Glasgow City Council spokesperson said: “The lord provost, as the city’s civic representative, is invited to attend hundreds of events each year… The allegations surrounding Mr Lin are a matter for the police.”
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