Convicted CCP Figure Could Go to Jail for Attempting to Influence Minister

Di Sanh “Sunny” Duong—the first person to be convicted of planning to commit an act of foreign interference in Australia—is fighting to avoid jail. His lawyers have argued that his offending was “unsophisticated” and argued he would be unlikely to re-offend now that he has been “outed.” Mr. Duong, 68, who also goes by the Chinese name of Yang Yisheng, was convicted in December of last year and faces up to 10 years in jail. But at his sentencing hearing this week, his lawyer David Carolan pleaded for a non-custodial sentence. His client had arrived in Australia from Vietnam as a refugee aboard a boat and had been involved in charitable work and the Chinese community in Melbourne for much of his life, he said....