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Simon Zhou

December 2019

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

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
Ryde deputy mayor Simon Zhou with his supporters on Tuesday night.

Pro-Beijing groups mobilised to support embattled Ryde deputy mayor

Supporters of Simon Zhou at council meeting convened to vote on his job were not from a local community group as their signs suggested but from the Hubei Homeland Association, which has links to the Chinese consulate in Sydney.

  • Angus Grigg, Edmund Tadros and Neil Chenoweth
Simon Zhou, left, with disgraced Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo.

Race card played at heated Sydney council meeting

A local council meeting descended into farce when the Labor mayor of Ryde used his casting vote to save his own job.

  • Angus Grigg and Edmund Tadros
Simon Zhou, left, with disgraced Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo.

Sydney deputy mayor went to Communist Party training camp

Simon Zhou spent eight days at a Communist Party training course in China just weeks before becoming a Labor Senate candidate at the 2016 federal election.

  • Angus Grigg, Neil Chenoweth and Edmund Tadros
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Sydney deputy mayor had Beijing endorsement

Simon Zhou, who has been referred to ICAC over links to billionaire Huang Xiangmo, was backed by the Communist Party for his Senate run in 2016.

  • Angus Grigg, Neil Chenoweth and Edmund Tadros

Huang Xiangmo's property fire sale as ATO circles

The controversial Chinese billionaire's Australian asset sell-down could total $1.1 billion if he's able to quickly offload a North Sydney office tower.

  • Ingrid Fuary-Wagner, Neil Chenoweth, Angus Grigg and Edmund Tadros
Ryde mayor Jerome Laxale is facing a vote to keep his job next week.

Labor mayor referred to ICAC could be gone by next week

The Sydney mayor and his deputy referred to NSW's corruption watchdog could be forced to stand aside as early as next week.

  • Angus Grigg and Edmund Tadros

October 2019

ICAC called to investigate Huang's planning windfall

The NSW corruption watchdog has been asked to investigate a planning decision which could deliver a $135 million windfall for the Chinese billionaire.

  • Angus Grigg, Neil Chenoweth and Edmund Tadros
ALP donor and former candidate Simon Zhou, left, with controversial Chinese political donor Huang Xiangmo.

Huang Xiangmo's $135m planning windfall

The Chinese billionaire stands to make $135 million profit from a Sydney planning decision, thanks to a local councillor who failed to declare a $4 million link to the developer.

  • Edmund Tadros, Angus Grigg and Neil Chenoweth

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