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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Vikram Dodd, Sally Weale, Simon Goodley and Richard Adams

MI5 warns UK universities over ‘theft of tech secrets by Chinese front company’

British and Chinese flags hanging on the side of a building in London's financial district
The alert warns of ‘potential criminal consequences’. Photograph: Richard Baker/In Pictures/Getty Images

MI5 has issued a rare public warning to UK universities that China’s intelligence service is using a front company to pay for research by UK academics and steal the secrets of hi-tech projects.

Britain’s domestic security service said researchers and academics should cease work with the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI), sometimes also known as the China Academy of General Technology (CAGT).

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