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A former parliamentary aide accused of spying for China has been charged with espionage offences and can seem at Westminster magistrates’ court docket on Friday.
Nick Value, head of the particular crime and counterterrorism division on the Crown Prosecution Service, stated on Monday that the CPS “has at this time authorised the Metropolitan Police to cost two males with espionage offences”.
He confirmed that Christopher Money, 29, and Christopher Berry, 32, “shall be charged with offering prejudicial info to a international state, China, and can seem at Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket on Friday 26 April”.
The pair have been arrested in March final yr underneath the Official Secrets and techniques Act. Money had labored as a parliamentary researcher in Westminster.
Money and Berry couldn’t instantly be reached for touch upon Monday.
Final September, Money stated in a press release launched by his legal professionals that he was “utterly harmless”.
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