Senators "delivered" a memo to the FBI, British publication The Telegraph reported on Tuesday, detailing that the United Kingdom's prospective ambassador to the United States, Lord Peter Mandelson, has had longstanding dealings with Chinese businessmen and officials from 2013 to 2019.
Mandelson, who has been plagued by controversy, including his ties to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, was cited in the memo, prepared by Chung Ching Kwong, according to Nightly, as having "multiple instances of Chinese Communist Party figures praising or thanking" him for his work in Chinese enterprises.
In March 2014, the Chinese published photographs of a meeting between Mandelson and Huang Shuhe, then Deputy Director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, a Chinese government body managing the country's critical infrastructure.
"Mr. Mandelson," a readout of the meeting posted on the Chinese web read, "introduced the business situation of Global Counsel and the cases of cooperation with central enterprises."
Global Counsel is a consulting firm Mandelson co-founded.
"In one instance," Nightly wrote, "Lord Mandelson is even recorded as an adviser to the Chinese-headquartered global investment bank China International Capital Corporation (CICC) — which is not declared on his House of Lords register."
In December, Mandelson was named as the U.K.'s ambassador to the U.S. But shortly after the announcement, reports came out citing his comments from 2019 calling Trump a "white nationalist and racist," as well as a "danger to the world."
Under the terms of the Vienna Convention, the Trump administration could reject Mandelson as envoy to the U.S. without explanation.
It is not clear which senator or senators delivered the memo to the FBI. Notably, Newsmax has been unable to obtain a copy of the memo, but has reached out to its author, Kwong, with the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.
On Tuesday, Kwong posted to X, "Surprised to see my work has gone to the FBI. Pretty sure there is nothing in there they don't already know — everything is open sourced."
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