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A former parliamentary aide accused of spying for China has been charged with espionage offences and will appear at Westminster magistrates’ court on Friday.
Nick Price, head of the special crime and counterterrorism division at the Crown Prosecution Service, said on Monday that the CPS “has today authorised the Metropolitan Police to charge two men with espionage offences”.
He confirmed that Christopher Cash, 29, and Christopher Berry, 32, “will be charged with providing prejudicial information to a foreign state, China, and will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday 26 April”.
The pair were arrested in March last year under the Official Secrets Act. Cash had worked as a parliamentary researcher in Westminster.
Cash and Berry could not immediately be reached for comment on Monday.
Last September, Cash said in a statement released by his lawyers that he was “completely innocent”.
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