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Yang Tengbo has been identified as the 50-year-old Chinese businessman and alleged spy banned from the UK.

Details of the allegations against Mr Yang came to light last week when a Special Immigration Appeals Tribunal upheld a Home Office order banning him from the UK on national security grounds following a long-running legal battle.

Mr Yang had previously only been identified as H6 – at his own request the order suppressing his identity was lifted on Monday. Yang Tengbo, also known as Chris Yang, was born in the south-western Chinese province of Yunnan in 1974.

He graduated from Yunnan University with a degree in archival science in 1995, before working at a “state institution” for seven years, he told BBC Chinese in 2005.

He eventually realised he needed to gain more knowledge about public administration and management, which led him to study abroad, he said in the interview.

Mr Yang first came to the UK in 2002 and studied in London for a year, before taking a masters degree in public administration and public policy at the University of York.

In 2005 he founded consultancy firm Hampton Group International – one of five companies he has been publicly listed as a director of in the UK.