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- Christopher Cash, 29, and Christopher Berry, 32, person been granted bail successful London aft being charged pinch spying for China.
- They are accused of violating nan Official Secrets Act by providing accusation useful to China betwixt precocious 2021 and February 2023.
- The 2 allegedly communicated pinch each different and a suspected Chinese intelligence agent.
A erstwhile interrogator moving successful nan U.K. Parliament and different man charged pinch spying for China were granted bail Friday aft an first tribunal quality successful London.
Christopher Cash, 29, and Christopher Berry, 32, were charged pinch violating nan Official Secrets Act by providing accusation aliases documents that could beryllium "useful to an enemy" — China — and "prejudicial to nan information aliases interests" of nan U.K. betwixt precocious 2021 and February 2023.
The two, who didn't participate a plea during their quality astatine Westminster Magistrates' Court, are accused of being successful interaction pinch each different and a personification suspected of being a Chinese intelligence agent.
UK PROSECUTORS CHARGE 2 MEN, INCLUDING PARLIAMENTARY RESEARCHER, WITH SPYING FOR CHINA
Cash, a parliamentary interrogator who worked pinch elder lawmakers from nan governing Conservatives, was ordered not to participate Parliament aliases interaction members of nan House of Commons.
Former British parliamentary interrogator Christopher Cash arrives astatine Westminster Magistrates' Court wherever he faces an Official Secrets Act complaint related to allegedly gathering accusation for China, successful London, connected April 26, 2024. (Jeff Moore/PA via AP)
Cash’s colleagues included Alicia Kearns, who now heads nan powerful Foreign Affairs Committee, and her predecessor successful that role, Tom Tugendhat, who is now information minister.
Berry is reportedly an world based successful Oxfordshire who has taught successful China since 2015.
The defendants were besides ordered not to to recreation extracurricular nan U.K. aliases interaction each other. They were ordered to look May 10 astatine nan Central Criminal Court known arsenic nan Old Bailey for a preliminary hearing.
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The Chinese Embassy has called nan allegations "completely fabricated" and "malicious slander," and urged nan U.K. to "stop anti-China governmental manipulation."
The brace were charged nan aforesaid time that 3 group were arrested successful Germany connected suspicion of spying for China and arranging to transportation accusation connected exertion pinch imaginable military uses.
Also connected Monday, an adjunct to a salient German far-right lawmaker successful nan European Parliament was arrested connected suspicion of spying for China.
British intelligence authorities person ratcheted up their warnings astir Beijing’s covert activities successful caller years.
