by Ganesh Sahathevan
David Gonski ACThe ABC and AFR reported yesterday that David Gonski AC, chairman of ANZ and godfather of Australia's boardrooms, is among those named in a database of persons under surveillance by the Chinese Government:
It's not clear how people were selected for entry into the database.
Current and former prime ministers are on the list, as well as leading businessman David Gonski, Jennifer Westacott from the Business Council of Australia, and the billionaire founders of tech company Atlassian, Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes.
Contrary to the ABC's comment, it is clear to anyone familiar with " business in Asia that business and politics are considered to be one; "big business" cannot exist without political patronage and vice versa. Malaysia's 1MDB scandal is a good example of the fact, and David Gonski would understand the example well. ANZ is after all ground zero of that scandal.
The Chinese Government and Chinese Communist Party are complicit in the cover-up of the 1MDB theft, and it is only natural that they would want to have on their files anything and everything about the key players in the matter; the information can be used in any number of ways.
The above may or may not come as a surprise to Gonski, who may or may not understand that China considers people like him assets, not friends.
Bob Carr and Geoff Raby who were also named in the ABC/AFR report may, on the other hand, not having had the advantage of Gonski's commercial experience, have thought otherwise. That illusion must now have been shattered.
TO BE READ WITH
Thursday, July 9, 2020
ANZ sacks Singapore based Head Of Global Credit Bogac Ozedemir, for criticising China: Sacking adds to ANZ's complicity in Malaysia's 1MDB theft & the attempted cover-up by Chinese Government companies
ANZ Chairman David Gonski and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian
The following has been reported in The Telegraph (UK):
Bogac Ozdemir,a top trader and star performer with Australia’s ANZ bank.....was the Global Head of Rates and Credit at the Singapore office of ANZ – one of the largest Australian banks and one of the country’s biggest companies. Their most profitable individual trader, Ozdemir was promoted rapidly. He made hundreds of millions of dollars for the bank and its shareholders, and turned around unprofitable departments.
However, his star performance was not enough to save him from the rage of the CCP when in a post on LinkedIn discussing the approach of different governments to coronavirus in March 2020 he said, ““I don’t want to say anything about China because we are all in this mess because of China and I don’t believe anything from there.”
ANZ, apparently unfamiliar with Chinese government information warfare tactics or simply lacking the strength to stand by its employee, meekly threw their top performer under the bus. They issued a statement declaring that Ozdemir’s comments “showed a distinct lack of judgement”, pledging “a full inquiry” and effectively publicly buying into Chinese disinformation by branding him a racist too in asserting that “ANZ promotes a culture of respect and multiculturalism and the comment was clearly not in keeping with our standards.” Ozdemir was asked to remove the LinkedIn post and placed on “special leave”, with rumours circling in the financial world that he has been fired.
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“Once those employees are seconded there, they essentially sever their ties with ANZ almost 100 per cent,”
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