by Ganesh Sahathevan
Mr Maguire resigned first from the Liberal Party, and then from politics, in
2018 after a separate ICAC inquiry.Source:Supplied
In 2016 the SMH reported:
Khoo Ee Liam arrived in Sydney in 2000 using the name William Khoo. Hong Kong court records show Khoo Ee Liam had spent the previous three years trying to raise cash through a backdoor listing and asset swap on the Australian Stock Exchange for Golden Glory. It struck problems when Deloittes valued his cable car business at $28 million, half what Khoo hoped. The ASX refused to let the new entity trade, because it didn't have enough Australian-based shareholders.
The story was titled Secret past of Liberals' China donor, and while the story detailed the Liberal Party and Gladys Berejiklian's financial relationship with Khoo(later known as Chiu),nothing was said of Berejiklian having any knowledge of Khoo's past, especially his detention under Malaysia's Internal Security Act when he was found working with the outlawed Malaysian Communist Party.
Mr Liam and Mr Phut are the principals of Kurrajong Corporation, a stud based in Bordertown, South Australia, which produces the obscure South Devon breed of cattle.
The shipment will become the basis for upgrading a herd in Jilin Province near Shanghai.
Under the contract, the Chinese will also be provided with frozen semen, embryos and technical back-up for breeding and research programs to improve commercial cattle herds in the province.
A cargo of 140 cattle will leave Melbourne Airport for Shanghai in a 747 jet today as part of a $20 million speculative deal with the Chinese Government that has stunned and embarrassed the Australian beef and livestock industries.
Two Malaysian-born Chinese Australians, Mr Khoo Ee Liam and Mr Bernard Phut, have stepped around a labyrinth of Chinese import protocols, stealing a significant advantage over Australian competitors and embarrassing the marketing arm of the Australian beef industry.
Mr Liam and Mr Phut are the principals of Kurrajong Corporation, a stud based in Bordertown, South Australia, which produces the obscure South Devon breed of cattle.
The shipment will become the basis for upgrading a herd in Jilin Province near Shanghai.
Under the contract, the Chinese will also be provided with frozen semen, embryos and technical back-up for breeding and research programs to improve commercial cattle herds in the province.
Mr Khut, an economic adviser to Jilin Province, steered the Chinese on to the breed on the strength of its temperament - purportedly suited to aircraft transport - milk quality and genetic characteristics adaptable to Chinese conditions.
The breakthrough into the Chinese market follows Australian Government dissatisfaction with the speed of meat industry reform and marketing initiatives. The Minister for Primary Industries and Energy, Mr John Anderson, recently announced a joint government-industry taskforce to expedite the industry restructuring.
The industry needed to tackle "its commercial and marketing opportunities and management challenges," he said.
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Beijing: Disgraced NSW MP Daryl Maguire accepted assisted travel to China from the same businessman who was allegedly pressured by Chinese intelligence agencies to cultivate Labor MPs Eric and Joel Fitzgibbon during an earlier all-expenses paid trip.
Mr Maguire flew to China for 11 days in August 2002 with financial assistance from ACA Capital Investments, his parliamentary disclosures show.
He had dealings with ACA Capital's sole director Humphrey Xu for the next decade, culminating in a failed bid by ACA Investments to build a $400 million international trade centre in his Liberal electorate of Wagga Wagga.
Humphrey Xu, 58, is the former boyfriend and business partner of Helen Liu. Ms Liu's personal friendship with then defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon made headlines in 2009 when Fairfax Media reported allegations that Ms Liu was suspected of having links to Chinese military intelligence.
But it was Mr Xu, a businessman with a property portfolio worth tens of millions of dollars in Sydney, who first befriended then Hunter MP Eric Fitzgibbon over a proposed wine deal and invited him, and his son Joel, then a Labor electorate officer, to visit Shandong in 1993.
Humphrey Xu, Joel Fitzgibbon, Daryl Maguire, Eric Fitzgibbon and Helen Liu.
The Fitzgibbons' trip was funded by Mr Xu and Ms Liu's company Diamond Hill International.
Fairfax Media has reported that during the trip, Mr Xu and Ms Liu were approached by Chinese intelligence figures and asked to cultivate a relationship with the Fitzgibbons.
Company records show that Mr Xu ceased to be a director of Diamond Hill International in June 1995, and exited another joint company, Wincopy, in December 1995.
The pair, who had become Australian permanent residents under a sham marriage arrangement with an Australian couple, broke up, and a bitter court dispute over control of their property empire ensued.
Wincopy made a $250,025 payment to a Chinese military intelligence front company embroiled in a political donations scandal in the US in 1996, after Xu had left.
On November 30, 2012, Mr Maguire - by now a member of government after a decade in opposition - witnessed the signing in NSW Parliament of a memorandum of understanding between Wagga Wagga council, ACA Capital Investments, and Chinese state-owned company Wuai to build a $400 million trade centre.
In June 2013, Wagga Wagga council approved the sale of land to ACA Capital, shortly after Mr Xu had visited the rural town to inspect the site in Mr Maguire's electorate. Mr Maguire was on the Wagga Wagga council taskforce to establish the international trade centre, and was reported by the local newspaper to be its "driving force".
But the deal had collapsed by October, with a council report citing community concern over "lack of transparency". A month earlier, the switch to a Liberal government in Canberra saw the immigration department reopen an investigation into Mr Xu and Ms Liu's sham marriages, drawing media attention to Mr Xu's past in Wagga Wagga.
Mr Maguire, who is resisting pressure to resign from NSW parliament after revelations to the Independent Commission Against Corruption that he sought kickbacks from a Chinese company for finding property deals, declined to comment for this story. He has resigned from the Liberal Party
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