A case of Chinese Spy operations in India

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A case of Chinese Spy operations in India

Ley Xiuan

In 2009 Chinese national Ley Xiuan, who was arrested for staying illegally at Mcleodganj, Himachal Pradesh has revealed during police interrogation that he was a member of the People’s Liberation Army of China. Xiuan has reportedly revealed that he had come by road from Lhasa, the capital of the Chinese controlled Tibetan region and later reached Delhi after travelling through Nepal illegally.

Wang Qing

Wang Qing was arrested in Dimapur, Nagaland in 2011. She flew to Kolkata from Kunming on a tourist visa as an executive of a Chinese timber company (she should have been on a business visa – even the cover was executed clumsily) and allegedly held a meeting with a Naga insurgent leader. She was deported from India.

Anthony Shimray

Evidence of more direct interference came after the arrest in 2011 of Anthony Shimray, a Nagaland separatist leader. This revealed China’s links with the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) in Assam and the United National Liberation Front (UNLF) in Manipur. In or before 2009, the Naga group was asked by the Chinese to give information on the Dalai Lama’s group in India and the facilities of the Indian army in Arunachal Pradesh. Some claims in the Indian press (for example, that China was willing to sell SAMs to the Naga separatists) have been discredited by international analyst .

Pema Tsering

Pema Tsering a Tibetan was arrested in 2013 in Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama’s base. He was an ineffective agent. Tsering had been jailed while serving in the Chinese armed forces and was released by the Chinese when he agreed to spy on the Dalai Lama’s group, but he was then recruited and paid by the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW). Police had recovered an Indian voter ID card and Aadhar card from Tsering's possession. During interrogations, the accused has admitted that he is ex-PLA personnel.

Qin Min (55)

In December 2017 a Chinese national suspected to be a spy was apprehended by the Army in Manipur. The accused, identified as Qin Min Xiv Xiang, 55, allegedly belonged to Fuzian province of China.

Charlie Peng (39)

In September 2018 he was arrested from 'majnu ka tilla', North delhi the police said they had recovered an Indian passport and an Aadhaar card from the accused. While the passport has been issued from Manipur, the Aadhaar card has the address of a residential society in southwest Delhi’s Dwarka. Police also recovered a Fortuner SUV, Rs 3.5 lakh in Indian currency, 2,000 dollars and 22,000 in Thai currency. According to the documents, the accused was living in DLF Gurgaon and was running a company from a plush office in the same area. The police claim Mr Peng travelled to India five years ago and since then have been moving around mostly in the northeastern states and Himachal Pradesh.