A 40-year-old man from the Stockholm area is suspected of having been involved with systematic spying on refugees for the Chinese government, Swedish Radio said, referring to the Metro newspaper. He is thought to have spied from autumn 2008 until spring last year.

In March, A 62-year-old Uighur living in Sweden for the past 13 years as a political refugee was sentenced to 16 months in prison for spying for China on Uighur expatriates.

The man, identified in court documents as Swedish citizen Babur Maihesuti, was found guilty of “aggravated illegal espionage activity” and was sentenced to one year and four months behind bars, the Stockholm district court said.

Police suspect the two cases are linked, the newspaper said.

China hit back at the accusations it was spying on exiled dissident groups.

“This kind of accusation is totally groundless and has ulterior motives,” foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang told reporters, without giving any further details.

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