Prince Andrew’s Links to Chinese Spy Suspect Revealed by U.Ok. Court

Prince Andrew, the youthful brother of King Charles III, has been caught up in a suspected case of Chinese spying, after a British courtroom upheld a choice to bar from the nation a Chinese man who was a “shut confidant” of his on nationwide safety grounds.

The ruling by the courtroom, issued on Thursday, discovered that the 50-year-old man, referred to solely as H6, had an internet of relationships with Andrew and different senior British officers. He additionally had hyperlinks to the Chinese Communist Party and entrance organizations that search to challenge Chinese affect in international nations, the courtroom mentioned.

“The applicant had been ready to generate relationships with distinguished U.Ok. figures and senior Chinese officers that may very well be leveraged for political interference functions,” mentioned the courtroom, referred to as the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, in a 53-page ruling.

The Chinese man, whose identification was sealed by the courtroom pending the result of any authorized enchantment, had studied in Britain and began an organization to advise British firms about funding alternatives in China. He was retained as an agent for Prince Andrew, who had labored a decade earlier as a particular envoy for commerce and funding for the British authorities.

Dominic Hampshire, then a senior adviser to Andrew, confirmed in a 2021 letter to the person that he “may act on behalf of the Duke in engagements with potential companions and traders in China.” Andrew, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II, additionally has the title Duke of York.

Security providers obtained the letter after seizing a cell phone and different digital units from the Chinese man after he was stopped on the border in November 2021. He advised the authorities he thought-about Britain his “second house.”