Wednesday, 30 Dec 2020 02:07 PM MYT
Dickson Yeo was convicted in the US to a spying charge and had been sentenced to 14 months’ imprisonment in October 2019. Dickson Yeo/Facebook image via TODAY
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SINGAPORE, Dec 30 Dickson Yeo, the Singaporean who was jailed in the United States for spying for China earlier this year, has been arrested under the Internal Security Act after serving out his US sentence.
He returned to Singapore today, the Internal Security Department (ISD) said in a statement on the same day.
The department said: “ISD will interview Yeo to establish if he had engaged in activities prejudicial to Singapore’s security. Singapore will not allow our nationals to be subverted or used by any foreign actors for activities prejudicial to our security and national interests.