Prosecutors say that the spy issue collapsed after the United Kingdom refused to name China as a “threat”

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The prosecution service in the Crown Prince said that the issue involved the alleged Chinese espionage in Parliament collapsed after the government refused to provide evidence that China poses a threat to national security in the United Kingdom.

In a message on Tuesday, CPS said it had repeatedly requested the government to provide evidence that China pose a threat to national security at the time of alleged crimes in 2023, but was rejected.

CPS said the rejection was the main reason behind this Abandoning Last month against two British accused of spying on politicians in Westminster on behalf of China.

“The efforts made to obtain evidence for several months,” CPS said in the letter to the home and justice affairs chairs in the House of Commons.

The letter added: “Do not stand up to the fact that no other witnesses have been presented. None of these stated that at the time of the crime, China represents a threat to national security, and by late August 2025, he realized that this evidence would not be coming.” “When this became clear, the issue could not go forward.”

The case was originally brought in April 2024 against Christopher Cash and Crystofer Perry, who were severely denied, and said that CPS was right to drop what they called misleading allegation.

The case included an alleged behavior between 2021 and 2023.

The Sir Kerr Starmer government faced great pressure on the collapse of the case. FT and other papers said in recent days that the best national security consultants in the United Kingdom have refused to provide the necessary certificate on China for the purposes of the official secrets law, which was the law on which men were charged.

Senior deputies called for an investigation after allegations that the government has given priority to trade with China On national security in the United Kingdom.

Some deputies fear the risks to give a green light to Beijing to spy in Westminster, given that the alleged crimes included providing information about parliamentarians to a Chinese agent.

He was the best security consultant in the United Kingdom Accused CPS case against Cash and Berry.

There was a row in a meeting in September who participated in the Ministry of Interior, attended by Jonathan Powell, National Security Adviser in Starmer, Matthew Collins, Deputy National Security Adviser, and Olay Robbins, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to senior senior officials.

Officials claimed that security consultants told the Ministry of Interior that Colines would not define China as an “enemy” in court – which was seen as a major element in any successful lawsuit under the official secrets law in the United Kingdom.

In a similar trial earlier this year, general prosecutors in the United Kingdom – with the support of Collins’ testimony – argued that the enemy included “any country that represents a threat to our national security.” Six Bulgarian citizens were convicted of spying on behalf of Russia in May as a result.

CPS said on Tuesday that the decision to accuse the two men in 2024 was true, but a ruling on a similar prosecution, which witnessed six Bulgarian citizens convicted of spying on behalf of Russia this year, explained the need to search for other evidence that would show that China was a threat to national security in the United Kingdom in the time of alleged crimes.

Sir Kerr Starmer sought to defend his government’s behavior on Tuesday, and reported that the case should reflect the position of the previous conservative government towards China at the time of the crime.

“You cannot sue someone after two years regarding a naming that was not present at that time,” Starmer said.

“As a public prosecutor, I know that if you are going to try a case like this, this is the situation at a time when it matters.”

Conservative deputies said it was clear that China was a threat at the time of alleged crimes, and that security services have many evidence of the high threats of Beijing.

In June, the Foreign Ministry warned that “China’s spying, interference in our democracy and undermining our economic security has increased in recent years.”

Sir Kane Maccalum, President of MI5, said in 2023 that more than 20,000 people in the UK have been contacted online by Chinese spies, describing the BBC “a sustainable campaign on a beautiful epic.”