Exclusive: Liberal MP Gladys Liu linked to donor at centre of cash drop probe
Liberal MP Gladys Liu secured access to the federal government for a company and Liberal Party donor endorsed by the Chinese Communist Party and later implicated in a major organised crime probe into $1 million in suspected drug money.
Asked about the cash, Mr Saylav said he was following the orders of Brighsun's Chinese co-director and key financial backer, Zhang Genjiang – a Crown casino high roller who was flying into Melbourne on a private jet to gamble at the time. Mr Saylav said he had no idea the man who gave him the cash in a backpack was a drug trafficker.
Brighsun’s political activities and its ties to a $1 million cash drop raises questions about Ms Liu's lobbying and fundraising activities. According to ASIC records and a press release issued in 2015, Brighsun New Energy is "a joint venture between ... Mr Kejun Huang and an investment group ... headed by Mr Genjiang Zhang".
The company’s current CEO, Charles Brent, said Ms Liu was “absolutely specifically” used by Brighsun to win government support. “Gladys did a very good job … she was instrumental in helping us get access, like any good lobbyist would, and that was her job.” The cash was handed over on May 3, 2016, by triad drug trafficker Lok Ping Tsui, who served 24 years in an Australian jail after being convicted over a major heroin importation into Australia in 1989. In the days leading up to that seizure, police tracked another cash drop-off to Mr Saylav from Lok.
Brighsun executives, from left: Director Kejun"Kevin" Huang, former CEO Allan Saylav and Chinese co-director Zhang Genjiang.
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