The MI5 alert said Lee was an agent for the United Front Work Department, a branch which reports directly to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). According to a rare alert sent by MI5 Thursday, Lee facilitated and channeled financial donations from China to political parties and parliamentarians and spent the best part of three decades establishing connections with politicians. The 59-year-old Lee is a mother of two and a legal adviser to the Chinese embassy in London. MI5 now say Lee was knowingly engaged in political interference in the UK, while British security agencies have been warning in recent months about China's increasing espionage activity in the country. Interior Minister Priti Patel said this development is the result of the solid structures that the United Kingdom put in place to identify foreign interference. But she was in fact banned from entering Parliament. The lawyer has also been photographed at public events with May's predecessor, David Cameron, at an event in 2015, and separately with former Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn.ĭespite these allegations, Lee has neither been arrested nor expelled from the country. Gardiner said in a statement that all donations received were properly declared and that he was in contact for years with the Kingdom's security services in relation to the lawyer's work. Lee has also donated £ 200,000 (€239,000) to former Labor shadow government member and current MP Barry Gardiner, and hundreds of thousands more to the party. Former Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May presented Lee with an award in 2019 for her contribution to Sino-British ties. Lee is a London-based lawyer who is very well integrated into the British establishment.

The alleged spy was said to have established ties on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with deputies and would-be deputies and according to the BBC, she facilitated donations to politicians. The MI5, Britain's domestic intelligence service, has warned MPs that a Chinese agent by the name of Christine Ching Kui Lee has infiltrated Westminster to interfere in UK politics. Lee has neither been arrested nor expelled from the country

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