BCB in Brief: Businessman jailed for attempted foreign interference on China's behalf
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What happened
Former Liberal Party candidate and Melbourne businessman Di Sanh Duong has been jailed for attempted foreign interference on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Found guilty of seeking to influence former Coalition minister Alan Tudge, Duong has been sentenced to two years and nine months in prison, with the possibility of release after one year.
Although the timing is apparently coincidental, the sentencing comes a day after the head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) delivered the Annual Threat Assessment, which included details of foiled foreign interference plots, some of which almost certainly relate to the Chinese state and its proxies.