H6 (Chinese businessman)

H6 (born c. 1974) is the name given by the British Home Office to a Chinese businessman and alleged spy. He is an honorary member of the 48 Group Club, a pro-China lobbying group and a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). H6 worked for the CCP's United Front Work Department. According to Radio Free Asia, H6's actual name is Yang Tengbo.

H6 was barred from entry to the United Kingdom on the grounds of national security in July 2023 by the Home Office as they considered that he likely posed a threat to national security had engaged in "covert and deceptive activity" on behalf of the Chinese Communist party (CCP).

H6 was stopped at a port in November 2021 when the letter from Hampshire as found on his personal electronic devices that listed "main talking points" for a telephone call with Prince Andrew, Duke of York. The letter stated "IMPORTANT: Manage expectations. Really important to not set 'too high' expectations - he is in a desperate situation and will grab onto anything".

H6 was invited to Andrew's 60th birthday party at Andrew's residence, the Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park, in 2020. Andrew's adviser Dominic Hampshire had written a letter in March 2021 that was found on H6's devices that stated "I also hope that it is clear to you where you sit with my principal and indeed his family. You should never underestimate the strength of that relationship ... Outside of his closest internal confidants, you sit at the very top of a tree that many, many people would like to be on". H6 was Andrew's guest at Buckingham Palace, St James's Palace and Windsor Castle.

The home secretary, Suella Braverman, barred H6 from the United Kingdom in March 2023. He appealed to the special immigration appeals commission (SIAC). Braverman was briefed in July 2023 that H6 was in a position to develop relationships between senior Chinese officials and notable UK individuals "that could be leveraged for political interference purposes". H6 had also downplayed his relationship with China which represented a threat to British national security due to his relationship with Andrew.

In July 2024 the SIAC was told that an adviser to Andrew told H6 he could act on Andrew's behalf in dealings with potential Chinese investors for the Eurasia Fund, an international financial initiative. H6 told the tribunal that he had limited links to the Chinese government and had avoided political involvement.

In December 2024 Mr Justice Bourne, Judge Stephen Smith and Sir Stewart Eldon dismissed H6's challenge writing that "The secretary of state was entitled to conclude that the applicant represented a risk to the national security of the United Kingdom, and that she was entitled to conclude that his exclusion was justified and proportionate". The three ruled of H6 that he had " ... won a significant degree, one could say an unusual degree, of trust from a senior member of the royal family who was prepared to enter into business activities with him. obvious that the pressures on the duke could make him vulnerable to the misuse of that sort of influence". The Guardian described him as a "now-50-year-old former civil servant" in a 2024 article. Following the revelations in December 2024, Andrew's office stated that he has "ceased all contact" with H6 having "met the individual through official channels, with nothing of a sensitive nature ever discussed".

H6 has also met the former prime ministers David Cameron and Theresa May, and the former chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne.