According to a British government official, Fraser Cameron, a British businessman who used to work for the British intelligence agency MI6, is being investigated for allegedly selling information to undercover Chinese spies.
Fraser Cameron, who now runs the EU-Asia Centre, a think tank, is suspected of passing sensitive information about the European Union to two Chinese spies, who have been publicly identified as Chinese spies. The two Chinese spies are publicly identified as Brussels-based journalists.
Fraser Cameron has also been accused of being paid thousands of euros for this information. However, he told the British newspaper The Times that all these allegations were “absurd”.
Fraser-Cameron worked for the British secret intelligence agency MI6 from 1976 to 1991. He says he has no access to “any classified classified information” at all.
Fraser-Cameron, who also worked for the British Foreign Office and the European Commission, separately told Politico that all the allegations were “baseless,” saying that he “because of the Eurasia Center’s extensive ties to China as part of its job responsibilities, some of them may have dual identities.
A British government official, requesting anonymity, told the BBC that the investigation into Fraser Cameron had been conducted jointly by British and Belgian intelligence agencies for some time, adding that the investigation had made a breakthrough in recent months.
The official said the cooperation was a good example of the close relationship between British intelligence agencies and their European partner countries.
The BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner says there are growing concerns about the extent of China’s covert intelligence gathering in Europe, including the EU’s sensitive negotiations with Britain over Brexit.
Cameron’s alleged sale of intelligence “clearly poses a threat” to European institutions based in the Belgian capital, according to the Financial Times, which quoted Belgian national security services as saying.
The investigation into Cameron is reportedly being conducted by the Belgian federal prosecution service.
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