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Huang Xiangmo

April 2022

A bigger security state needs to be paid for.

How China pervades our politics now

Coercion and competition from China are driving bigger and stronger government in Australia, and the debate over how the deficits are ultimately to be paid for.

  • Richard McGregor
The Star is following Crown’s path into public disgrace.

Billionaire Lee bought $2.7b in chips at The Star, inquiry hears

Phillip Dong Fang Lee purchased $2.72 billion through The Star Entertainment’s flagship casino in Sydney over 15 years, an inquiry into the gambling company’s conduct has heard.

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  • Elouise Fowler and Hannah Wootton

March 2022

The Star Casino in Sydney.

Billionaire Huang bought $1.7b in chips at Star, inquiry hears

The casino did not ask its head of financial crimes investigations to look into the source of his wealth, or why he was using multiple passports with different identities.

  • Hannah Wootton and Elouise Fowler
High roller Phillip Dong Fang Lee giving evidence to the Bell inquiry into Star.

Star witness fights ATO disclosure order after $272m tax bill

Phillip Dong Fang Lee described how Star Casino gave him $5 million credit, but he doesn’t want to talk to the tax man.

  • Neil Chenoweth

December 2021

Controversial Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo.

Chinese billionaire’s assets frozen in $140m fight with ATO

The High Court has restored a worldwide freezing order over the assets of political donor Huang Xiangmo.

  • Michael Pelly
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October 2021

The Star’s executives will be grilled in public hearings in March over allegations of money laundering and infiltration by organised crime figures at its Australian casinos.

The Star executives to face public grilling

The Star’s executives will be grilled in public hearings in March over allegations of money laundering and infiltration by organised crime figures.

  • Elouise Fowler
The Star in Sydney.

Nearly $1b wiped off Star as regulator widens probe

The regulator said a private inquiry into Star would have the same consequences as the Bergin probe into Crown Resorts if it identified major issues.

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  • Lucas Baird

December 2020

Huang Xiangmo

Red faces over suspicious transactions

A leading figure in the Law Council’s campaign to scuttle new anti-money-laundering rules was unaware his firm acted for disgraced Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo.

  • Neil Chenoweth
Huang Xiangmo called for an investigation into himself after the Financial Review's revelations about a secret $11 million fee.

Bakehouse sale: who pays for $11m secret fee?

A Hong Kong company has taken a half share of Yuhu's Bakehouse Quarter, but what did it pay for?

  • Neil Chenoweth

May 2020

Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo, right, practises a little social distancing with former protege Simon Zhou, deputy mayor of Ryde Council.

Huang Xiangmo buys out deputy mayor's firm

Simon Zhou's family trust company cuts links with Yuhu's Pymble office centre.

  • Neil Chenoweth

February 2020

Stephen Conroy: China hawke, and board member of a company with state-owned Chinese creditors.

Did Conroy's hawkishness cruel Sargon's chances?

Stephen Conroy is a China hawk, and the board member of a company with state-owned Chinese creditors. Go figure.

  • Myriam Robin

January 2020

20 Berry Street, North Sydney

Yuhu's quick, quiet tower sale leaves millions on the table

Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo is facing a battle with the ATO after selling another property.

  • Ingrid Fuary-Wagner, Angus Grigg and Neil Chenoweth

December 2019

Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo gambled $65 million at The Star over Easter in 2015.

Huang Xiangmo's $65m gambling spree

Casino documents were the final revelation in an inquiry that has done more than any other to help us understand how China's Communist Party operates in Australia through conduits like Huang Xiangmo.

  • Angus Grigg and Neil Chenoweth
AFR Lunch with Huang Xiangmo at The Century, The Star, Sydney. Thursday 22nd July 2016. Photo: Ryan Stuart

Huang Xiangmo's big night of gambling

The $100,000 allegedly donated to the NSW Labor Party by Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo was withdrawn from his account at Sydney’s Star casino after an evening of heavy gambling.

  • Angus Grigg
Former NSW MP Ernest Wong.

Ex-Labor MP had 'alcoholic blackout' at fundraiser

A former NSW Labor MP says he can't remember to whom he gave a bag of donation forms and possibly cash after a fundraising dinner at the centre of an anti- corruption inquiry because he had an "alcoholic blackout".

  • Heather McNab
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Tim Xu, the executive assistant for Huang Xiangmo, outside ICAC on Monday.

ICAC hears Huang was conduit for China's Communist Party

The disgraced billionaire offered to pay for a state dinner and sought to have Victoria sign an agreement with a Chinese province.

  • Angus Grigg
Former boss of the NSW ALP Jamie Clements, flew on the Crown private jet.

ICAC told former ALP boss used Crown Casino private jet

Jamie Clements accompanied disgraced billionaire Huang Xiangmo on a trip to Melbourne.

  • Angus Grigg
Wang Liqiang . . . fraud claims trigger fresh scrutiny of alleged meetings between Huang Xiangmo and Wang's spy boss

ICAC mystery donor is behind fraud case against defector

The case the Chinese government is using to discredit defector Wang Liqiang throws new scrutiny on alleged meetings between Huang Xiangmo and Wang's spy boss.

  • Neil Chenoweth and Angus Grigg
“I have campaigned against a company and a project for years but I would not have taken that protest action and neither would I publicly congratulate an activist for taking that action. I have a different view to Senator Rhiannon in that respect,” Peter Whish-Wilson said.

Greens push to extend anti-money laundering laws

They want real estate agents, lawyers and accountants to be compelled to report suspicious transactions, and accuse the main parties of going soft on criminals.

  • John Kehoe

November 2019

Simon Zhou, left, with disgraced Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo.

ICAC links Simon Zhou to mystery $50,000 donation

Questions were raised last month about the 2016 donation during an inquiry by the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

  • Neil Chenoweth, Angus Grigg and Edmund Tadros

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