The government of China has announced that it has uncovered a British spy whom it has now accused of passing on state secrets.
The director of a foreign consultancy was found to be spying for the UK’s MI6 intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security announced on Monday. It is the most recent of many charges that Beijing and London have recently exchanged.
Africa Today News, New York reports that the Chinese spy agency announced the detection of the espionage on its WeChat social media account. It stated that MI6 had used foreigner Huang Moumou to collect secrets and information.
“The British foreign intelligence service had established an intelligence cooperative relationship with Huang, who heads an overseas consulting agency, in 2015,” it said.
According to the statement, Huang does not have Chinese citizenship. The state security body did not disclose the nationality or gender of the suspect.
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“After careful investigation, the state security organs promptly discovered evidence of Huang’s involvement in espionage activities, and took criminal coercive measures against him,” the ministry noted.
According to Beijing, MI6 instructed Huang to enter China on several occasions and to use his public identity to collect China-related intelligence for British spying.
The British intelligence service also trained Huang and provided equipment for intelligence cross-linking, the statement continued.
Huang allegedly passed 17 pieces of intelligence, including confidential state secrets, to MI6 before he was identified.
Africa Today News, New York understands that the statement did not provide details of Huang’s identity or employer.