South Korean authorities began a probe to take care of unofficially arrange Chinese ‘police stations’ throughout the nation. The alleged presence of such entities was discovered after an investigation in Seoul in 2023, The Straits Times reported.

The National Intelligence Service and the police officers are trying into the suspected actions of Chinese ‘police stations’ which might be working secretly for the Chinese authorities. These entities are working in Seoul, in addition to, different areas together with Jeju Island.

In May, the intelligence service tentatively got here to a choice {that a} Chinese restaurant was performing as a base for covert police operations for Beijing in central Seoul’s Songpa district.

Choe Jae-hyeong, a consultant of the People Power Party on Thursday discovered that the Confucius Institutes run by the Chinese authorities allegedly unfold propaganda on behalf of Beijing and staged actions to counter scholar actions supporting Hong Kong democracy actions at South Korean universities, as per The Straits Times.

According to Safeguard Defenders, a non-governmental organisation based mostly in Spain, China is allegedly working greater than 100 police stations in at the least 53 international locations to increase its affect and forcibly repatriate Chinese nationals. However, Chinese officers have typically denied the presence of such police stations within the nation.

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Wang Wenbin restated throughout a press briefing on May 15 that there are “no so-called overseas police stations” and that such accusations had been “disinformation…smearing and discrediting China,” in keeping with The Straits Times.

Wang additional agreed that there have been establishments which had been serving to Chinese nationals in different international locations to return house in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, however they had been “not so-called police stations or police service centres.”