An alleged Chinese spy with links to Prince Andrew has been named after an anonymity order was lifted. The government is facing an urgent question in the House of Commons on the issue this afternoon.
We've just been sent through a statement from alleged Chinese spy Yang Tengbo after an anonymity order protecting his identity was lifted at the Royal Courts of Justice.'Due to the high level of speculation and misreporting in the media and elsewhere, I have asked my legal team to disclose my identity,' his statement says. 'I have done nothing wrong or unlawful and the concerns raised by the Home Office against me are ill-founded.
'I have been excluded from seeing most of the evidence that was used against me under a process which is widely acknowledged by SIAC practitioners as inherently unfair: decisions are made based on secret evidence and closed proceedings, which has been described as 'taking blind shots at a hidden target'.
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