Chinese police hunting international corruption targets were allowed into Australia by the federal police and subsequently escorted a woman back to China for trial, in a major breach of Chinese-Australian police protocols.
The revelations, contained in Monday night’s Four Corners program about a former Chinese spy, prompted a sharp rebuke from federal politicians who are concerned the act may have undermined Australia’s national security.
The Chinese police were permitted to enter Australia in 2019 to talk with a 59-year-old Chinese-born Australian resident.
The woman was targeted under a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) anti-corruption drive called Operation Fox Hunt, which relies on police from the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) to make arrests.
Her case is one of 283 cases documented by an international NGO, Safeguard Defenders, in its recent report, Chasing Fox Hunt.
While Fox Hunt is described by the CCP as targeting “economic criminals”, human rights groups have said it is also used to silence dissidents and abduct people around the world.
Fraud in China has far worse consequences than fraud in Australia. Even if I were to be arrested, I’d prefer it to happen in Australia where I can get off with a slap on the wrist.
https://nit.com.au/05-02-2024/9636/roebourne-regional-prison-cells-still-without-air-conditioning-in-extreme-heat
Enjoy yourself, I guess.
Fraudsters aren’t being shipped to a regional prison in one of the most remote areas of the country lol
True. White collar crimes getting the white glove treatment isn’t unusual in the West, no matter how many lives are ruined.
I’ll take 43C/109F to a forced labor internment camp but you do you.
I would pass on it.
Forced labor in 49C it is then.
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Sounds awful. Enjoy your Australian prison.
And you enjoy your Chinese internment camp, maybe your organs will fetch a nice price for the apparatchik.
Or maybe westerners will look and point drunkenly at your plasticized, dissected body for entertainment.
The Chinese of Atlanta Georgia?
The one I saw was in Las Vegas but every single body was Chinese.
The reality is I’d rather sit in a Aussie prison in 46/115 heat than in a Chinese prison at a nice balmy 25/77.
Do you think the Chinese prison system is a better place than the Australian prison system?
They’re not saying they want to go to prison in Australia. They’re saying it would obviously be better than going to prison in freaking China.
I feel like you’re a Chinese prison salesman or something.
No, they’re just hanging their hat on “China Always Worse”.
That’s a sane and logical conclusion
Compared to Australia? Yes, going to prison in China would be worse.
How much you want to bet that jail has even a single white collar criminal in it exposed to 43 C heat?