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Sky News Political Editor David_Speers breaks down the allegations of foreign interference currently unfolding around Home Affairs Minister PeterDutton_MP and his former links to Chinese Billionaire Huang Xiangmo and lobbyist Santo Santoro.

Sky News Political Editor David Speers breaks down the allegations of foreign interference currently unfolding around Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton and his former links to Chinese Billionaire Huang Xiangmo and lobbyist Santo Santoro. Huang Xiangmo allegedly paid tens of thousands of dollars to lobbyist Santo Santoro in 2016 to secure a private lunch with then Immigration Minister Peter Dutton in a failed attempt to fast-track his citizenship application.

has since declined Mr Huang's citizenship bid and the Chinese billionaire has been banned from returning to Australian soil. Both Labor and former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull have called for further investigation into the matter, Mr Turnbull arguing the Home Affairs Minister has 'a lot to explain'. Image: News Corp Australia

 

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