Convicted CCP Figure Jailed for 12 Months for Attempting to Influence Minister

Published on February 29, 2024

Following revelations from Australia’s domestic spy agency that a retired federal politician was actively spying for a foreign power, a County Court in Victoria has handed down a one-year sentence to the first person convicted of committing an act of foreign interference. Vietnamese-born businessman Di Sanh Duong, 68, was found guilty by a jury of preparing for, or planning, an act of foreign interference on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) following a month-long trial in the County Court at the end of 2023. He had used a $37,450 (US$26,000) donation to Royal Melbourne Hospital to try curry favour with then-federal Health Minister Alan Tudge, whom he believed could be a future prime minister....

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