Before he was found to have fabricated evidence about his trip, fintech whizkid Phillip Kingston laid out the story of a multimillion-dollar meeting in Hong Kong with a Chinese-state owned financier.
It was supposedly November 23, 2017, and Melbourne-born Kingston, a Gen Y entrepreneur who wooed a former Australian minister and corporate blue blood to his boards, had flown into the financial hub that afternoon.
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