Photo emerges of ‘suspect in UK spy case alongside top Hong Kong official’

South China Morning Post releases image said to be of Chung Biu Yuen with chief executive John Lee in 2002

One of the three men accused of aiding the Hong Kong intelligence services in the UK was a classmate of the territory’s top official, John Lee, who has hit out at “unwarranted allegations” against the Hong Kong government, according to reports.

Chung Biu Yuen, a bureaucrat who works in the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) in London, is said to appear alongside Lee in a graduation photograph from 2002 that was published by the South China Morning Post.