Is the Chinese govt working ‘police stations’ in different nations to silence dissenting voices

On October 30, a Twitter person Sam Dunning raised the alarm about ‘Chinese Police Stations’ on overseas land in a Twitter thread. In his thread, Sam alleged there’s a connection between these ‘stations’ to British Politics, the Chinese Community Party and critical organized crime. He additional added that 4 publications within the United Kingdom are already engaged on the story.

Much scrutiny currently of ‘Chinese police stations’ working on the streets of Britain…

What hyperlinks the ‘stations’ to British politics, the Chinese Communist Party, an assault within the coronary heart of London, & critical organised crime?

This is massive.

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— Sam Dunning (@samdunningo) October 30, 2022

Sam highlighted a The Times UK report that pointed in direction of the demand for an investigation into China’s ‘Secret Police Stations’ popping up throughout the nation. The demand was raised by the MPs following an investigation completed by a Spain-based NGO named Safeguard Defenders. They revealed of their report that at the very least 54 “overseas police service centres” have popped up throughout 21 nations, together with the United Kingdom, the place two of them have been noticed in London and one in Glasgow.

In its report titled “Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild“, the group alleged that the unofficial enforcement bodies “serve a more sinister goal as they contribute to resolutely cracking down on all kinds of illegal and criminal activities involving overseas Chinese”. The report was launched on September 1, 2022.

Sam additional mentioned that one of many addresses of 1 such police station within the UK matches the deal with of an organization run by Lin Ruiyou. He added a video the place he claimed that Lin was selling the companies of the station. The video was in Chinese.

In the following Tweet, he confirmed that Lin was seen with outstanding personalities within the UK, together with former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Theresa May, and Sajid Javid. A report on Chinese Police within the UK was printed in Daily Mail, however a reference to Lin was faraway from the report.

In case it wasn’t apparent from the images (a couple of occassion) of him with Boris, Lin has had entry to the likes of @theresa_may , @sajidjavid , and a great variety of different Conservatives.

Who is that this man?

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— Sam Dunning (@samdunningo) October 30, 2022

Further within the thread, Sam alleged that he got here to learn about Lin when he reported a few conflict that occurred in Chinatown in London. “The clash erupted after organizers appeared to attack pro-democracy HK & Chinese counter-protestors,” he added.

Following the conflict, the bounty was allegedly introduced in opposition to pro-democracy Hong Konger exiles named Simon Cheng and Nathan Law.

After, photos emerged of a bunch chat the place ‘bounties’ have been reportedly placed on two outstanding pro-democracy Hong Konger exiles, @SimonChengUK and @NathanLawKC .

Lin Xinxian 林新献, a pacesetter of the Association, was within the chat.
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— Sam Dunning (@samdunningo) October 30, 2022

He identified that Lin had entry to Tory fundraising occasions as he had labored as a Tory fundraiser himself.

Lin was listed as vice-chair of the Chinese Group’ of the London & Westminster Conservative Association (CLWCA), however as of now, the outline has been eliminated. This explicit group commonly organises fundraisers for CLWCA, Sam added.

Until very lately (…), Lin was publicly described as vice-chair of the ‘Chinese Group’ of the London & Westminster Conservative Association (CLWCA). This description has since been faraway from the CLWCA’s web site.

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— Sam Dunning (@samdunningo) October 30, 2022

Talking about Lin’s companies, Sam mentioned he runs a meals supply app which had claimed to have earned over GBP 400,000 on daily basis. Sam raised questions over the quantity because the ranking of the applying is low.

In Spain Lin Ruiyou owns a winery, and appears to export the wine from there to China, the place he owns a series of wine outlets. This is a extra critical enterprise, with one cargo of wine shipped in 2015 value greater than £100k (I discovered it referred to in a court docket doc).

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— Sam Dunning (@samdunningo) October 30, 2022

Furthermore, Lin additionally owns a winery in Spain and exports wine from China. He owns a number of wine outlets as effectively.

Sam alleged Lin works with a number of businessmen who’ve been accused or convicted of economic fraud previously.

About report on Chinese Police on overseas land

The report by the Spanish NGO pointed fingers at China for working unlawful police stations on overseas land in at the very least 21 nations on 5 continents. The NGO raised considerations concerning the violation of British regulation to ship again people to China. As per the China Research Group of MPs, A Chinese authorities official reportedly admitted the position of those stations in ‘pressuring criminals’ to return to China. These ‘criminals’ could possibly be Hongkongers, Uighurs, dissidents or certainly anybody who has dared to criticize the Chinese Communist Party,” mentioned The Times.

The report mentioned that these officers the world over declare to have “persuaded” 230,000 people to return to China. They claimed that these people had dedicated ” monetary and telecom fraud”, however consultants consider lots of them may have been dissenters talking in opposition to the Chinese authorities.