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dsnowlion

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Man charged in Sweden for spying on Tibetans for China
« on: April 12, 2018, 10:45:54 AM »
There seems to be a trend with Tibetans being discovered as spies for China to spy over their own people. This time around a 49-year-old Tibetan man was caught in Sweden. Looks like the grass is greener on the other side and goes to show that Tibetans are not loyal. This is probably why Tibetans lost their country in the first place. Sad but true fact. And the way the Tibetan leadership deals with this shame is to put the blame of Dorje Shugden... perfect isn't it. Blame it on the Buddhas ha!

Well, Mr Sangay how come you could not pay them more to spy on China instead or to not spy and be loyal?


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Man charged in Sweden for spying on Tibetans for China

https://www.thelocal.se/20180411/man-charged-in-sweden-for-spying-on-tibetans-for-china?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter


A 49-year-old man has been charged in Sweden for spying on exiled Tibetans for the Chinese government.
The man is accused of supplying the Chinese government with information on where exiled Tibetans live, their family relationships, and their travel plans.

He carried out his suspected espionage on "certain people of importance to the Chinese regime" Swedish prosecutors said, primarily through attending political meetings of the Tibetan diaspora in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe.

His purpose was to "pass this information to representatives of the Chinese state".

Swedish prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist told Swedish broadcaster SVT that he man had been in contact with Chinese officials in Poland and Finland, and was paid 50,000 kronor ($6,000) on at least one occasion.

Ljungqvist said the crime was serious because the man was deeply embedded in the Tibetan community and "could have caused or still cause a large number of people serious harm".

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Jamyang Choedon, who chairs the Tibetan Community in Sweden organisation said the decision to charge the man was a breakthrough.

"It is clear that there are spies who are sent by China to Tibetan communities, but this is the first time it’s been officially investigated," she told The Local.

"It will be interesting for us to know if it's really true or not. We've heard that it's happening, but now we might have evidence."

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Re: Man charged in Sweden for spying on Tibetans for China
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2018, 07:52:20 PM »
When I see this news about a Tibetan man spying on his fellow Tibetans for money, I knew that the Tibet Cause is doomed. There are only very few hundred thousands Tibetans in exile, and now they are spying against each other for money. How shameful!

 

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Re: Man charged in Sweden for spying on Tibetans for China
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2018, 04:14:12 PM »
New development on this matter:

The Tibetan man who was charged with spying on fellow Tibetan refugees has denied the charges against him. He said that the 50,000 krona that was allegedly paid to him by China was actually from his mother. But the money was passed to him via a Chinese Businessman from Qinghai.

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*Tibetan Charged in Sweden Denies Spying For China*

A Tibetan man charged last week in Sweden with spying on fellow exile Tibetans has denied the accusations against him in an exclusive interview with RFA’s Tibetan Service.

Dorjee Gyantsan, 49, who now faces a possible sentence of up to four years in prison, said that he has never spied for China.

“I have never passed any information about Tibetans to the Chinese embassy,” Gyantsan told RFA by phone on April 16.

Arrested on Feb. 26 last year on suspicion of “espionage against refugees in Sweden,” but later released, Gyantsan has now been charged with “serious unlawful intelligence activities against several individuals” in the country, the Swedish Security Service said in an April 11 statement.

Media reports cited Swedish state prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist as saying that Gyantsan, who has close ties with Sweden’s exile Tibetan community, had contacted Chinese officials in Poland and Finland, and had been paid 50,000 krona (U.S. $5,945) on one occasion, leading to his arrest last year.

Gyantsan said, however, that his contacts with a Chinese man later identified as an official in China’s embassy in Poland, and with a Chinese journalist in Sweden, were unconnected with intelligence work.

“I met the Chinese man from Warsaw while traveling together on a boat, and I met with him again a few times afterward,” Gyantsan said.

“He told me that he was a student at Warsaw University, so I was not even aware that he is a secretary at the Chinese embassy,” he said.

And though he was found in possession of almost $6,000 on a return trip to Sweden by boat, that money had come from his mother and was delivered to him by a Chinese businessman from Qinghai’s provincial capital Xining now doing business in Sweden, he said.

“It was not given to me by the Chinese man working at the embassy,” he said.

*’Innocent meetings’*

Gyantsan’s admitted contacts with a reporter for China’s China Daily newspaper were similarly innocent, he said, adding that he had first met the man at gatherings held by Sweden’s Tibetan exile community.

“He once saw me reading a message by [exiled Tibetan spiritual leader] His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Chinese, so he contacted me and we exchanged phone numbers,” he said.

“We met again later on several occasions, and he even invited me to meals that he paid for. But I’ve never given him any information about Tibetans,” he said.

Sweden’s Security Service has noted that unlawful intelligence activities targeting refugees is a method often used to prevent them from criticizing the regime of the country from which they have fled, and is also used by certain regimes in an attempt to gain control over people who have fled their countries.

Ethnic Uyghurs living in Sweden have also reported being pressured by China to spy on the exile community there.

In 2009, the government sentenced a Swedish national of Uyghur descent named Babur Mahsut to 16 months in prison for “aggravated illegal espionage activity” after he was found to have collected personal information about exiled Uyghurs—including details on their health, travel and political involvement—and passed the information on to agents from the Chinese intelligence service.

Reported by Tashi Wangchuk for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Benpa Topgyal. Written in English by Richard Finney.

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/spying-04182018133403.html


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Re: Man charged in Sweden for spying on Tibetans for China
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2018, 05:23:12 PM »
Well, isn't that fabulous... Tibetans are well known to blame everything wrong on China. They automatically jumped laying the blame on China when news was out. So now what? Such sheep like mentality, it is no wonder they are not going to progress and help the Dalai Lama get back to China, opps sorry Tibet I meant! Lol