Chinese businessman Liu Huifeng of Melbourne is under investigation by local intelligence services for allegedly posing a national security risk to Australia, and may face deportation. Liu Huifeng has a background as a retired Chinese Communist Party soldier, and earlier founded and served as president of a local civil society organization. Reports indicate that the organization has a secret agreement with the Chinese Consulate General in Melbourne, and that the organization gives information about local Chinese to the embassy, while the Chinese consulate provides funding. Liu Huifeng also has close ties with the Australian Assistant Treasurer and Chinese legislator Cindy Liao. The Chinese Consulate General in Melbourne issued a statement accusing the Australian media of deliberate ‘smear campaign’.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported Monday (Jan. 4) that Chinese businessman Liu Huifeng of Melbourne has been assessed by the Australian Security Intelligence Service (ASIO) as a risk to national security and could face deportation. Liu Huifeng was denied a permanent residence visa to Australia earlier.
Australian Federal Police have confirmed that they are involved in an ASIO-led ‘anti-foreign interference’ investigation into Liu Huifeng.
Australian commentator Huang Fujing, in an interview with RTHK, believed that Australian intelligence had evidence of Liu Huifeng’s service to the Chinese Communist Party. The latter, in particular, includes the fact that the Chinese Communist Party has information about Chinese people in Australia through Liu Huifeng’s association and has infiltrated the Australian political scene. He described the incident as a replica of the case of Huang Xiangmo, another Chinese businessman who was denied entry into Australia.
Liu Huifeng told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that he was convinced that the Australian Security Intelligence Service assessed him as a national security risk because he was the president of the Australian Emergency Mutual Aid Association.
Huang Fujing said: Liu Huifeng has not been deported yet, but I think Australian intelligence and security organizations have got solid evidence in their hands that the Chinese Communist Party is manipulating the Chinese in Australia more deeply and comprehensively through his organization, which is obviously interfering in Australia’s internal affairs. The main problem is that Liu Huifeng has hooked up with the Federal Assistant Treasurer, just like Huang Xiangmo in Sydney had hooked up with many important political figures at that time, and the Chinese Communist Party has infiltrated into the Australian side in all aspects, most importantly into the political circles.
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