Telegraph: The Chinese state used the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) to run what a court heard were “shadow police operations” on British soil.
In the first case of its kind, Bill Yuen, 66, was jailed for eight years at the Old Bailey on Thursday for a charge of assisting a foreign intelligence service in the UK under the 2023 National Security Act.
…Prosecutors described how, from within its premises on Bedford Square, in central London, Yuen, the office manager, would assist in efforts to track down and forcibly return Hong Kong nationals living in Britain…