A former Rolls-Royce engineer was arrested under the UK’s Official Secrets Act as part of an investigation by the police and security services into an alleged plot to steal secrets on Britain’s new F-35 stealth fighter jet.
The Sun newspaper, which first reported the arrest on Thursday, named the man as Bryn Jones, a former chief combustion technologist at Rolls-Royce who worked for the company for 35 years.
A security official confirmed the arrest “followed a long running covert investigation” into possible Chinese commercial espionage in the UK.
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