Alleged Chinese Spy with Links to Prince Andrew Banned from UK

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Prince Andrew is pictured with the Chinese ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming. Photo: @AmbLiuXiaoMing circa 2020.

A Chinese businessman described as a "close confidant" of the Duke of York has lost an appeal against a decision to bar him from the UK on national security grounds. The man, known only as H6, brought the case after being banned from entering the country in March 2023. H6 had formed a close working relationship with Prince Andrew.

H6 brought his case to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, a court set up to consider appeals against decisions to ban or remove someone from the country on national security or related grounds.

In the published ruling, the judge said that the then-home secretary, Suella Braverman, was "entitled to conclude that [H6] represented a risk to the national security of the United Kingdom, and that she was entitled to conclude that his exclusion was justified and proportionate".

The court assessed that this meant H6 was in a position "to generate relationships between senior Chinese officials and prominent UK figures which could be leveraged for political interference purposes by the Chinese State".

H6 was believed to be associated with the United Front Work Department (UFWD), an arm of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tasked with conducting influence operations.

MI5 had expressed concern about the threat posed to the UK by political interference by China and that bodies such as the UFWD were "mounting patient, well-funded, deceptive campaigns to buy and exert influence".



The Home Office said they believed H6 had been engaged in covert and deceptive activity on behalf of the CCP and that his relationship with Prince Andrew could be used for political interference.

In November 2019, Prince Andrew stepped back from royal duties amid growing public anger about his friendship with the late US financier and odious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Questions were subsequently raised about his finances after he reached a settlement - believed to run into the millions - in a civil sexual assault case brought against him by Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's accusers. The prince has always denied assaulting Ms. Giuffre.


Prince Andrew (L) and the loathsome Jeffrey Epstein (R).

Last month, a royal biography claimed the prince's brother, King Charles, had cut Prince Andrew off financially, ceasing to pay for security at his home or provide him with a personal allowance.

MI5 (and MI6) already have their hands full with Chinese and Russian espionage and here Prince Andrew further disgraces himself for 30 pieces of silver.


Judas Iscariot with his pelf.


Sources:

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/H6-v-SSHD-OPEN-Judgment-final-for-hand-down-FINAL.pdf

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd75vwdg3yvo

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg4plz7z4yo

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1. Update: Alleged Chinese Spy Linked to Prince Andrew Named as Yang Tengbo

Yang Tengbo in undated photo.

AKA Chris Yang(50), the former chair of Hampton Group, had been in the UK for almost two decades.

He was first stopped by counter-terrorism services in 2021 and ordered to surrender his devices. Court documents said Yang had split his time between China and the UK and told officials he considered the UK his second home.

The alleged spy is considered to have engaged in "covert and deceptive activity" on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/16/alleged-chinese-spy-linked-to-prince-andrew-named-as-yang-tengbo

https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-h6-what-we-know-about-the-chinese-spy-with-links-to-prince-andrew-13274721