Chinese state-owned fund among backers of company handling Canadian visa applications
Documents filed with Britain’s corporate registry, Companies House, show Chengdong Investment Corp. as one of the most significant contributing partners to the parent company of TT Services, which runs visa application centres for the Canadian government in 24 countries. Its services include collecting fingerprints, photos, biographical information and other personal data.
Chengdong is a subsidiary of China Investment Corp., a Chinese state-run giant with more than US$1-trillion in assets.
Immigration consultants in Canada have raised concerns about the contract with VFS since 2008, when the company began processing visas in China, where police can access corporate offices. Chinese national law also requires any organization operating inside the country to co-operate with intelligence services.
But Richard Fadden, a former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) who served as national security adviser to two prime ministers, said he does not think it is appropriate for a company with Chinese state-enterprise ownership to handle visa applications for the Canadian government.
Source: The Globe and Mail #Dec18
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-chinese-state-owned-fund-among-backers-of-company-handling-canadian/?fbclid=IwAR1qobvp1OuTEhNBRrs4aSA_Y1gIwGdFrNcZwn-4y_rRRODPFMIaYUf6nTg
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Documents filed with Britain’s corporate registry, Companies House, show Chengdong Investment Corp. as one of the most significant contributing partners to the parent company of TT Services, which runs visa application centres for the Canadian government in 24 countries. Its services include collecting fingerprints, photos, biographical information and other personal data.
Chengdong is a subsidiary of China Investment Corp., a Chinese state-run giant with more than US$1-trillion in assets.
Immigration consultants in Canada have raised concerns about the contract with VFS since 2008, when the company began processing visas in China, where police can access corporate offices. Chinese national law also requires any organization operating inside the country to co-operate with intelligence services.
But Richard Fadden, a former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) who served as national security adviser to two prime ministers, said he does not think it is appropriate for a company with Chinese state-enterprise ownership to handle visa applications for the Canadian government.
Source: The Globe and Mail #Dec18
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-chinese-state-owned-fund-among-backers-of-company-handling-canadian/?fbclid=IwAR1qobvp1OuTEhNBRrs4aSA_Y1gIwGdFrNcZwn-4y_rRRODPFMIaYUf6nTg
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Chinese state-owned fund among backers of company handling Canadian visa applications
The ownership structure has prompted some of Canada’s former foreign intelligence leaders to warn that Ottawa should think carefully about trusting sensitive information to a company partly owned by the Chinese state
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Beware of Chinese spies: British Government Urges Hongkongers to Apply Visa Online
//The [British] government is urging Hongkongers to apply for Britain’s new visa scheme online because China is stationing agents outside application centres.
[British] Ministers have been given intelligence that [Chinese] undercover agents are spying on dissidents coming and going from two centres in Hong Kong.
It is feared that they are passing on names and photos of dissidents to the Chinese authorities in an attempt to block their departure.
The Times revealed last week that Chinese spies were posing as dissidents in an attempt to enter Britain through its Hong Kong visa scheme.//
Image: Stand News
Source: The Times #Aug17
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/beware-of-chinese-spies-visa-applicants-told-thdz6g8hq
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Beware of Chinese spies: British Government Urges Hongkongers to Apply Visa Online
//The [British] government is urging Hongkongers to apply for Britain’s new visa scheme online because China is stationing agents outside application centres.
[British] Ministers have been given intelligence that [Chinese] undercover agents are spying on dissidents coming and going from two centres in Hong Kong.
It is feared that they are passing on names and photos of dissidents to the Chinese authorities in an attempt to block their departure.
The Times revealed last week that Chinese spies were posing as dissidents in an attempt to enter Britain through its Hong Kong visa scheme.//
Image: Stand News
Source: The Times #Aug17
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/beware-of-chinese-spies-visa-applicants-told-thdz6g8hq
#ChineseSpy #VisaApplication #Doxxing #PoliticalSuppression #CCP
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Beware of Chinese spies, visa applicants told
The government is urging Hongkongers to apply for Britain’s new visa scheme online because China is stationing agents outside application centres. Ministers h