Evidence of China linked political donation before Dan Andrews signed Silk Road/BRI agreement, but Australians cannot still bring themselves to confront the reality that their Silk Road deals are tainted, just like the Malaysian ,Kuwaiti Silk Road/BRI deals

by Ganesh Sahathevan

Daniel Andrews accepts a cheque for the Victorian Labor Party in 2014. https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/premier-s-belt-and-road-adviser-helped-land-labor-donation-20200529-p54xoz.html

The investigative website Sarawak Report has added to the evidence of corruption in the Kuwait Silk Road/BRI deal:

As Sarawak Report has lately revealed Jho Low had been busy in the course of early 2016 making provision for the transfers of large sums of laundered money from these Chinese contracts using a new business relationship in Kuwait.

The by now fugitive Malaysian financier who, despite denials at the time, was still working for Najib to resolve the growing crisis over 1MDB had forged a business deal with the family of the then Kuwait prime minister and had agreed to pass the billions expected from these Chinese “commissions” through companies owned by Sheikh Sabah Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (Sheikh Sabah) the prime minister’s elder son.

In Australia the following was reported by the Nine newspapers this week :

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ top Belt and Road adviser was instrumental in landing a $100,000 donation to the Labor party through a key Chinese business group years before Victoria signed up to the controversial infrastructure scheme.

Mr Andrews’ senior adviser, Marty Mei, who is on the board of the Hunan Business Association, helped secure the contribution in the lead up to the 2014 state election, according to sources with knowledge of the donation. He later became Mr Andrews' multicultural adviser and worked on the Belt and Road deal.

Despite even this revelation Australians seem unwilling to accept that their Belt & Road deals are tainted in any way. Even in Malaysia an anti-corruption agency and police investigation would have been commenced on the strength of the Nine news report above. 

It is time Australians grew up.

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