Australian politician admits Chinese visa scheme was a scam

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Daryl Maguire made thousands in a scheme that had Chinese nationals paying large sums for a business to pretend they were employed in NSW

An Australian politician at the centre of a corruption investigation told an inquiry on Wednesday that he had received envelopes full of thousands of dollars in cash at his parliament office as part of a scheme for Chinese nationals to fraudulently acquire visas.

Maguire and his business associate, Maggie Wang, received up to A$20,000 for each business they recruited to the scheme. He agreed it was a breach of public trust. Maguire accepted another allegation heard by the inquiry on Tuesday: that he had tried to make money from his position as chair of the parliament’s Asia Pacific Friendship Group by promoting a series of Chinese business deals in the Pacific islands.

 

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