Chi Leung (Peter) Wai, 38, Matthew Trickett, 37, and Chung Biu Yuen, 63, have also been charged with foreign interference.
Three men have been charged under the National Security Act with assisting the Hong Kong intelligence service.
It follows an investigation led by officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command in which 11 people in total were detained. Wai, of Staines-upon-Thames, Trickett, of Maidenhead, and Yuen, of Hackney, were each charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service, contrary to section 3 and of the National Security Act, and with foreign interference, contrary to section 13 and of the same Act.Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, said: “This operation is not connected to a recently reported Counter Terrorism Policing investigation linked to Russia.
“While led from London, the Counter Terrorism Policing network has been crucial to disrupting this activity and we have worked closely with the Crown Prosecution Service since the start of the investigation.
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