The arrest of several accused of spying for China in Germany and England

According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, citing the weekly newspaper “Spiegel”, an employee The British Parliament and a British scientist were accused of spying for China. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Monday that the case relates to alleged offenses between the end of 2021 and February 2023 that were “designed to benefit the enemy directly or indirectly.

The men accused of spying for China, aged 29 and 32, are due to appear in a London court on Friday. In March, media reports said at the time that one of the two men had been in contact with members of the ruling Conservative Party, including Security Minister Tom Stimhat, while working as a parliamentary research assistant However, Stimhat is said to have had only limited contact with the suspect, before he took up his post as minister. Instead, he emphasized that he spent his professional life educating others about the challenges and threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party.

The case also caused tensions in September. became diplomatic British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak accused Beijing of “interfering” with parliamentary democracy in light of the inquiry. China reacted angrily and “firmly” denied the espionage accusations.

In Germany, three suspects who were said to be spying for China were arrested on Monday. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office of Germany, one of them, Thomas R. accuses him of having obtained information about innovative technologies that could be used militarily on behalf of China.

It is said that for this he used a couple named Herwig. and Ina F, who run a company in Dusseldorf, has used it. These three German citizens are accused of acting as agents of the secret service and violating foreign trade laws. In this way, shortly after the visit of Olaf Schultz, the chancellor of Germany to China, “Jens Rommel”, the federal prosecutor. Germany has arrested three espionage suspects who are said to have passed information on military technology to China’s secret service.

The main suspect, 59-year-old Thomas R. It is said to have been in contact with an employee of China’s secret service MSS and obtained data on “innovative technologies that could be used militarily”.

German federal prosecutors said the information allegedly given to the Chinese intelligence officer was, among other things, about modern machinery parts that could be used in powerful ship engines, for example in warships.

Furthermore, it is said that the defendant procured a special laser in Germany on behalf of MSS and exported the device to China without permission.

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