Soon after lodging a $3 million Supreme Court claim, Filip Shu started calling around Sydney journalists. What was motivating him? | INVESTIGATION
in Sydney being examined by the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption. ICAC has been probing if Huang Xiangmo used straw donors to funnel money into Australian politics, a claim denied by Huang., of which a subsidiary collapsed with an unpaid $2.3 million tax bill.Within hours of lodging his legal documents in late January, Mr Shu’s close associates were calling journalists across Sydney. Shu had time on his side.
Chenoweth had broken the story about Shu’s involvement in a suspect donation being probed by ICAC. He thought it odd that Shu had brought a debt recovery action in Australia, where Wang has about $2000 in the bank. The obvious place for Shu’s claim, since it involves a dispute over a Chinese business deal and assets in China, appears to be China.If the case is a genuine attempt to get at Wang’s Australian assets, it will likely be fruitless.
One of the people Wang said he was involved with was Xiang Xin, the man who Wang claims was his boss and who ran a Hong Kong intelligence front. Xiang was arrested in Taiwan in November and remains barred from returning to Hong Kong under the country’s National Security Law. Taiwanese authorities have confirmed some of Wang’s claims about Xiang, including his past working for a Chinese military technology agency. Xiang denies all wrongdoing or even knowing Wang.
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