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Murdered Brit Neil Heywood was MI6 informant

A BRITISH businessman whose murder triggered China's biggest political scandal in decades had been informing MI6 of the private affairs of one of the most powerful families in the Communist Party in the last year of his life.

 

China’s Security Ministry Suspected Neil Heywood, Slain British Businessman, Was a Spy

Neil Heywood

The murder of the British businessman, Neil Heywood, is still seen as stemming from a financial dispute, but the intelligence links add an enticing subplot to his death.

 

UK says businessman slain in China was not a spy

A businessman whose murder sparked political upheaval in China was not a British spy, Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Thursday, trying to quell speculation that has swirled around the man's mysterious death.

 

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