Chinese Spy
High-level probe into Chinese ‘spies’ working in British universities could lead to arrests: Report
Beijing/London: A high-level probe into Chinese ‘spies’ working in British universities might lead to arrests in the upcoming weeks, media reports said.
Specialists at the Foreign Office, Special Branch and HMRC have drawn up a list of academics suspected of passing sensitive information to Beijing, including pioneering British technology, that could be used to aid the repression of minorities and dissidents, reports Daily Mail.
Investigators are understood to have ‘established a correlation’ between universities which earn significant income from students from China and the activities of staff which have prompted suspicion, the newspaper reported.
Universities under scrutiny include Manchester and Imperial College, which earn 26 per cent of their income from students from China; Liverpool and Sheffield (28 per cent); and Oxford and Cambridge (10 per cent), the newspaper reported.
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