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From left: Daniel Hausman, Sevag Chalabian and Daniel “Big D” Rostankovski.

King of the camouflage: Money laundering lawyer joins clients behind bars

Sydney lawyer Sevag Chalabian has been sentenced to 12 years in jail over washing $24 million in blackmail money linked to the Plutus Payroll scam.

  • Kate McClymont

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Then federal and state Labor leaders, Bill Shorten and Luke Foley attending the fundraiser, along with Mr Huang (second from right) and former Labor MP Ernest Wong (second from left).

ICAC finds former NSW Labor MP Ernest Wong corrupt

The NSW corruption watchdog has found former Labor MP Ernest Wong engaged in serious corrupt conduct as part of a scheme to circumvent the state’s donation laws.

  • Tom Rabe
The Foreign Relations Bill is aimed at curbing Chinese influence in states, universities and foreign investment.

Vigilance against foreign influence does not require overzealous suspicion of Chinese-Australians

Our liberal democracy needs citizens engaged in civil society - and that also goes for Chinese-Australians and their community organisations.

  • Jennifer Hsu
Labor frontbencher Kristina Keneally, who the party will move into the seat of Fowler, over a local, Tu Le.

Labor’s Kristina Keneally met with head of United Front group

Labor’s home affairs spokeswoman said she didn’t know the man was the head of a peak Chinese propaganda body when she met with him.

  • Anthony Galloway
Billionaire Huang Xiangmo at his Sydney mansion in 2018.

Communist Party appoints ‘influence agent’ Huang Xiangmo to top Hong Kong post

The 1500 members of the Hong Kong election committee have all been vetted by the Chinese security agencies and will help select almost half the Hong Kong legislature in 2022.

  • Nick McKenzie
Huang Xiangmo became a well-connected political donor during his time in Australia.

Huang Xiangmo takes challenge to asset freeze to the High Court

The one-time major political donor is no longer in Australia but his lawyers are battling an asset freeze related to a $140 million tax judgment.

  • Nick Bonyhady
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Australia’s funpark for felons leaves the nation vulnerable to hostile foreign powers

Casinos are not only ideal for criminals to disguise the origins of their ill-gotten gains. Agents of foreign powers could use them too.

  • Peter Hartcher
Di Sanh Duong, 65, has been charged in Melbourne with preparing an act of foreign interference within Australia.

Melbourne man with Liberal Party links charged under foreign interference laws

A Melbourne man with suspected links to Beijing's overseas influence arm has become the first person charged under Australia's landmark foreign interference laws.

  • Anthony Galloway, Paul Sakkal and Nick McKenzie
Li Zhang is running for the Glen Eira City Council.

Beijing influence or racism? China debate hits Melbourne council elections

A Labor-aligned candidate running in a Melbourne council ward says she no longer wants to win after being accused of being a Chinese agent of influence.

  • Anthony Galloway and Alex Chung
Chinese flag flies outside the Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong.

Inside the global alliance attempting to stifle China

The medieval church cloisters in the small Dutch city of Maastricht are an unlikely setting for Chinese Communist Party influence. 

  • Eryk Bagshaw

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