China accused the British intelligence agency of spying against its country

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting “Day Site” publication, China has accused the British foreign intelligence service MI6 of employing two civil servants of this country as spies. China’s Ministry of State Security announced that a couple working for the Chinese government is believed to have separated. The man was recruited in 2015 while studying in the UK. He is said to have then persuaded his wife to collect information for MI6. First, he is invited to have dinner and a walk. It is said that he was offered money in exchange for consulting work. The man was later trained as a higher-paid MI6 spy and sent back to China.

MI6 has been investigating this man, Wang, since 2015 when he was studying in the UK. Kurd applied for this purpose and employed him.

According to the information from the Chinese side, after the British intelligence agency discovered that Wang “had a strong desire for money”. Yes, he was offered well-paid consulting services. MI6 operatives later identified themselves to Wang and ordered him to return to China to gather information. He convinced his wife, Zhou, to do the same.

The ministry said the case is under investigation. Unspecified actions have been taken against this man so far. It was not clear from this statement which institutions the couple worked for or when the case of espionage was revealed.

The ministry only announced “decisive action” has placed against Wang on the agenda. The investigation of this case will continue. At first, there were no details about the couple’s activities or what kind of information they were sharing.

China and the West have long accused each other of spying. do However, information about specific cases of such actions is only recently being made public. In January, for example, China’s state security agency released a dossier it said MI6 was involved in. Recently, England also arrested three men who were said to be working for Hong Kong’s secret service.

In April, four people were arrested in Germany on charges of spying for China. became Among them is Maximilian Kera, a long-time employee of the far-right Alternative for Germany party for the European elections. In the same week, British police charged two men with transferring sensitive information to China from 2021 to 2023.

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