New Evidence Suggests Chinese Dissident Allegedly Targeted by Chinese Secret Police at Time of ‘Mysterious’ Kayak Death: Report

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A Chinese dissident who died in a kayaking accident in British Columbia was allegedly being targeted by Chinese secret police agents at the time of his death, according to evidence from a former Chinese spy.

Eric allegedly worked for 15 years as an undercover agent for China’s Ministry of Public Security to monitor dissidents abroad. He told Radio Canada, the French arm of CBC, that he believes the public has the right to know what the Chinese police are doing.

ABC reported that Eric had fled to Australia from China in 2023 and provided Australia’s intelligence agency with hundreds of documents, financial records, photos, and encrypted messages, narrating his history as an undercover agent.

To support the allegations, Eric showed the reporters the contents of his phone, including financial documents, clandestine money transfers, names of individuals involved in espionage, and thousands of text and video messages.

Eric was responsible for monitoring Chinese dissident Hua Yong, who died “mysteriously” while kayaking off the B.C. coast in late 2022 after finding refuge there, he told Radio Canada.

Eric reportedly said that if Hua had been arrested, he would have received a bonus worth more than $25,000.

To gain Hua’s trust, Eric created a fake anti-CCP online persona and was given cover as the manager of a local hotel group that aspired to overthrow the CCP, something he and Hua bonded over. Meanwhile, Eric reported Hua’s whereabouts to the secret police agency.

Eric told Radio Canada that it would have been too risky not to inform the police about Hua’s whereabouts as it could have caused the police to be suspicious of him.

Hua left Thailand in 2021, arriving in Nova Scotia on a humanitarian protection visa, as reported by ABC. He eventually settled in British Columbia, where Eric continued to track him remotely, reporting back to the Chinese police.

Hua reportedly went kayaking in November 2022 and allegedly drowned. His body was found on an island off the Sunshine Coast of B.C. The RCMP did not rule the death as suspicious, previously telling The Epoch Times that a thorough investigation had been completed.

However, the British Columbia coroner has yet to issue a report, long exceeding the usual 16-month duration of a coroner’s inquest in British Columbia, according to the public broadcaster.

The complexity of the case and investigations carried out by other agencies can contribute to longer delays, the coroner’s office said, as reported by Radio Canada.

“If you do not collaborate, if you do not act according to their demands, you are likely to go to prison,” Eric said, according to Radio Canada.

“After a defection like mine, a special team is usually formed to handle the case. They will track and gather information about me over the long term to decide what to do with me.”

Eric also said that he wants to remind Canadians that the Chinese regime is “the main threat to Canadian democracy.”

“It is a totalitarian regime with strong fascist tendencies that poses a serious threat to world peace, our democratic way of life, and freedom of expression,” Eric told the outlet.

Subsequent investigation by authorities confirmed the existence of illegal Chinese police stations in Canada. The stations were said to be involved in transnational repression, as well as pursuing persons said to be of interest to Beijing.

Eric told Radio Canada that he has sent documents behind closed doors to Canada’s Foreign Interference Commission, after allegedly being invited by the commission to testify as a witness in the fall last year.