Chinese media claims bookseller Gui Minhai offered national secrets to Sweden

Global Times claims Gui was involved in a plot to jeopardise security and that Sweden was trying to help him escape

Swedish bookseller Gui Minhai was transporting secret documents to the Chinese capital when he was seized last month, a Communist party-run newspaper has claimed, as Stockholm hit back at the decision to parade its citizen before the Beijing-friendly press.

Gui, a publisher of racy tomes about Chinese politics whose stranger-than-fiction tale might have been lifted from one of his own titles, was snatched on 20 January as he attempted to reach Beijing with two Swedish diplomats.

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