London CNN —A former opposition lawmaker in Britain’s House of Commons has alleged that the UK’s domestic spy agency MI5 may have issued a rare alert notice in 2022 about an alleged Chinese agent as a distraction from the so-called Partygate scandal, according to testimony before a tribunal looking into the alert.
The Christine Lee & So Solicitors office on Wardour Street, London, on January 13, 2022.
He was the chairman of the now-disbanded Chinese in Britain All-Party Parliamentary Group, on which Lee sat.
The UK has since introduced a foreign agents registration act, which is expected to come into force later this year.
In a statement to CNN in 2022, Gardiner said he had not benefited personally from Lee’s donations in any way, adding that the money had been properly reported and its source verified.
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