{"id":149575,"date":"2022-01-14T13:28:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T13:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=149575"},"modified":"2022-01-14T13:28:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T13:28:07","slug":"mi5-outs-chinese-spy-whose-son-worked-in-labour-mps-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/mi5-outs-chinese-spy-whose-son-worked-in-labour-mps-office\/","title":{"rendered":"MI5 outs Chinese spy whose son worked in Labour MP\u2019s office"},"content":{"rendered":"

London: <\/strong>MI5 has used a bombshell memo to MPs to out a Chinese spy accused of using concealed political donations and the cultivation members of Parliament to conduct covert interference.<\/p>\n

The warning was issued by the British spy agency in a Security Service Interference Alert that was distributed to MPs via the speakers of the Commons and the Lords on Thursday (London time).<\/p>\n

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The office of Christine Lee\u2019s law firm in London\u2019s Soho district.<\/span>Credit:<\/span>Getty<\/cite><\/p>\n

The MI5 alert said that it had identified London lawyer Christine Lee as knowingly engaging in political interference activities on behalf of the United Work Front Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).<\/p>\n

The United Work Front Department specialises in trying to corrupt or coerce MPs and other influential, high-profile individuals into making comments supportive of the CCP or silencing any criticisms they might have of the communist regime.<\/p>\n

\u201cLee has been engaged in the facilitation of financial donations to political parties, Parliamentarians, aspiring Parliamentarians and individuals seeking political office in the UK, including facilitating donations to political entities on behalf of foreign nationals,\u201d MI5\u2019s alert said.<\/p>\n

The speakers of the Commons and Lords said the situation was considered serious.<\/p>\n

\u201cI should highlight the fact that Lee has facilitated financial donations to serving and aspiring Parliamentarians on behalf of foreign nationals based in Hong Kong and China,\u201d they told MPs and Lords.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis facilitation was done covertly to mask the origins of the payments. This is clearly unacceptable behaviour and steps are being taken to ensure it ceases.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lee founded an NGO called the British Chinese Project which claimed to be promoting \u201cengagement, understanding and cooperation between the Chinese community and UK society.<\/p>\n

The organisation conducted a first-of-its-kind Chinese Community and Policing Report studying the relationship between the British-Chinese community and the police.<\/p>\n

Then Prime Minister Theresa May in 2019 honoured Lee with a Points of Light Award, which recognises community volunteers.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou should feel very proud of the difference that \u2018The British Chinese Project\u2019 is making in promoting engagement, understanding, and cooperation between the Chinese and British communities in the UK,\u201d May wrote in a personal letter to Lee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also wish you well with your work to further the inclusion and participation of British-Chinese people in the UK political system.\u201d<\/p>\n

The organisation\u2019s website says it has closed down due to the \u201cCOVID situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to last year\u2019s register of interests, Lee paid for two researchers, one of whom was her son, to work in the office of Labour frontbencher Barry Gardiner. She has also been photographed with former prime minister David Cameron and former opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn.<\/p>\n

Gardiner said he had been \u201cliaising\u201d with British security services for years about Lee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been assured by the security services that whilst they have definitively identified improper funding channelled through Christine Lee, this does not relate to any funding received by my office,\u201d Gardiner said.<\/p>\n

He also said Lee\u2019s son worked in his office as a diary manager, but resigned on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe security services have advised me that they have no intelligence that shows he was aware of, or complicit in, his mother\u2019s illegal activity,\u201d Gardiner said.<\/p>\n

Alan Mendoza, from the hawkish think tank the Henry Jackson Society, said the revelation showed Britain had been too slow to recognise the threat Chinese interference posed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis revelation proves what many have been warning for years: that China is actively attempting to subvert British democracy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor too long Britain has been blind to the threat of Chinese interference and failed to act with the same haste as our friends in Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that China\u2019s anti-democratic malevolence is known, there can be no return to business as usual with this regime. The time has come to view the CCP as they view us, a threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

British Home Secretary Priti Patel said she knew the news that Lee has targeted parliamentarians on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party would be \u201cdeeply concerning to many.\u201d<\/p>\n

But she noted that \u201cwhere necessary, proportionate action is always taken to mitigate these threats.\u201d<\/p>\n

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