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In a 2024 post we detailed how the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office ‘had a presence at the Lord Mayor’s Show for nearly two decades,’ that the head of that office Gilford Law had schmoozed the then ‘three most recent Lord Mayors of London – …Michael Mainelli… Nick Lyons… and…William Russell,’ and that Law was Chinese spy ‘Bill Yuen’s local boss’. This month two of the spies associated with Law (the third is dead) were sentenced for their espionage activities, as detailed in the Sky News report China Hits Out At ‘Political’ Case After Spies Jailed (18 June 2026): A former UK Border Force officer and an ex-Hong Kong police officer have been jailed for spying for China in the first case of its kind. Peter Wai, 41, and Bill Yuen, 66, are the first people to be convicted of assisting the country’s foreign intelligence service in the UK under the 2023 National Security Act. Wai, who was also found guilty of misconduct in a public office by using his access to Home Office systems through…

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