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Melbourne businessman Di Sanh Duong the first to be prosecuted under 2018 laws, over a $37,000 hospital donation
Prosecutor Patrick Doyle told the jury the Chinese Communist Party would have seen Duong as an “ideal target” to work as its agent.
Di Sanh Duong, 68, of Melbourne, Australia, has been convicted on covert foreign interference charges — a first under a relatively new law established in 2018.
An Australian court on Tuesday recorded the first conviction under the nation’s foreign interference laws with a jury finding a Vietnamese refugee guilty of covertly working for the Chinese Communist Party. A Victoria state County Court jury convicted Melbourne businessman and local community leader Di Sanh Duong on a charge…
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Lawyers for the first person to be charged under Australia's foreign interference laws insisted in court Friday that a donation to a hospital made via a federal government minister was not a covert attempt to curry favor on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.