Overview

• Chung Biu Yuen, 64, and Chi Leung Peter Wai, 39, are charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service and foreign interference in the UK.
• The charges involve alleged acts of information gathering, surveillance, and forced entry into a residential property in May 2024.
• Wai, a former UK Border Force officer, also faces a misconduct charge for unauthorized searches of Home Office databases.
• The case is part of Britain's efforts to address foreign state threats under the recently enacted National Security Act.
• A third co-defendant, Matthew Trickett, was removed from the case following his death in May, which authorities do not consider suspicious.