Overview
- A Norwegian court ordered four weeks in custody for a Chinese man arrested in northern Norway on suspicion of attempted illegal intelligence activity, according to PST.
- PST has not disclosed what the man is accused of trying to access or how, and his lawyer said he denies the offense.
- The detention follows an earlier PST investigation into a Norway-registered company suspected of helping a Chinese state actor set up a receiver to download data from polar-orbit satellites.
- Police said several people were charged in the satellite case and that searches took place at a site that hosts Andoya Spaceport and at a second location in Innlandet, as Andoya Space said it has no link to the suspects.
- Norway’s threat assessment ranks China and Russia as the main espionage risks, citing efforts to gain access to sensitive technology and to buy land near critical or military sites.