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UK immigration officer among two men guilty of working for Chinese intelligence

Chi Leung "Peter" Wai, a former UK Border Force officer, and Chung Biu "Bill" Yuen, an ex-Hong Kong police officer and former manager of London’s Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO), have been found guilty under the UK National Security Act of assisting Chinese intelligence by tracking Hong Kong pro-democracy dissidents in the UK using Wai’s access to Home Office immigration databases. The jury failed to reach a verdict on a foreign interference charge linked to an attempted entry into a Hong Kong woman’s flat in Pontefract, with the prosecution declining to seek a retrial; co-conspirator Matthew Trickett, another Border Force officer, died by suspected suicide after the group’s arrest.