Posted on 04/22/2024 12:06:26 PM PDT by RandFan
A UK parliamentary researcher and another man have been charged with spying for China after allegedly providing information which could be "useful to an enemy".
Christopher Cash, 29, the researcher, and Christopher Berry, 32, were charged under the Official Secrets Act.
They are accused of giving "articles, notes, documents or information" to a foreign state, the Met Police said.
China has called the allegations "malicious slander".
Counter-terrorism police have described the allegations as "very serious".
Mr Berry, from Witney in Oxfordshire, and Mr Cash, of Whitechapel, London, were arrested last March in connection with the investigation.
It was previously reported that one of the men - Mr Cash - was a parliamentary researcher involved with the China Research Group, and who is understood to have had access to several Conservative MPs.
The Sunday Times reported the researcher had access to security minister Tom Tugendhat and foreign affairs committee chairwoman Alicia Kearns, among others.
The offences Mr Cash is alleged to have committed are claimed to have happened between 20 January 2022 and 3 February 2023, while those against Mr Berry are alleged to have happened between 28 December 2021 and 3 February 2023.
Cdr Dominic Murphy, head of the Counter Terrorism Command, said it had been an "extremely complex investigation".
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Where’s Hunter?
Yes. The counter terror police should be investigating him !
Hunter and The Big Guy???
What an absolutely horrifically-written headline.
What is says is the spying was directed under the Official Secrets Act. As if they were commanded to by the OSA.
What it means, obviously, is that they were charged under the OSA with Spying for the Chinese.
How ironic that even the professional practitioners of the language their country invented have such a limited grasp of its use (and where was his copy editor, on a fag break?).
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