Beijing Offers Major Cash Rewards for Tips on Foreign Spies

The capital is offering some big cash rewards to residents who can give information on foreign spies, BBC reports.

The amount depends on how valuable the information is. However, Beijingers can expect to earn anywhere from RMB10,000 to RMB500,000 for tipoffs. The RMB500,000 (USD72,000) is reserved for those how have prime information. 

The value of the tips is dependent on how much the information is useful in "preventing or stopping espionage behaviour, or cracking espionage cases," according to the Beijing Daily. 

Tips can be issued via a special hotline, by mail or in person. 

Just last year, the government released a rather hilarious comic highlighting the dangers of dating foreigners… because they might actually be secret spies. 

According to local officials, Beijing "is the first choice among foreign spy agencies and others who are fiercely carrying out infiltration, subversion, division, destruction and theft." They are encouraging the public "to slowly construct an iron Great Wall in combating evil and guarding against spies."

[Image via BBC]