Najib oversaw deal funded by Malaysian state investment agency that created Australian billionaires who celebrated their good fortune by buying exotic cars, luxury homes, yacht

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

                                                    Former PM Najib Razak

It has been previously reported on this blog that an unidentified Malaysian state investment fund created Australian billionaires instead of improving Bumiputera welfare, as such entities are meant to do.

The deal that enriched the Australians was concluded in January 2018 while Malaysia's Najib Razak was Prime Minister and Finance Minister.

According to Euromoney: 

When renewables private equity group Equis Energy was sold to GIP for $5 billion – $3.7 billion of it equity – investors walked away with well over double their initial investment. The founders of Equis made around $800 million. But why was more than $500 million of the proceeds ringfenced into a vehicle called Equis Renewables, in which the underlying investors did not participate, while the general partners got it all? The story of how those assets got there casts a light on the curious inner workings of modern private equity.

When the money cleared, the partners of Equis went shopping to celebrate. Founder and leader David Russell got a yellow Lamborghini; his brother Tim, a personalized orange Porsche. Craig Marsh settled upon a black McLaren with carbon-fibre trims.

They had reason to celebrate. The clearance of funds that day in January 2018 marked the conclusion of the biggest renewable energy sale ever completed.

The Australian newspaper reported in March 2018 that (David Russell) was buying a Melbourne mansion from Shane Warne for close to A$20 million ($13.5 million), and the following month Brisbane’s Courier Mail reported he had bought a trophy home in Noosa, Queensland, for A$18 million in a deal that set a record for the entire Sunshine Coast region.

And of course, the superyacht.

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Saturday, November 27, 2021

Empowered to uplift Bumiputera welfare, Malaysian state investment fund created Australian billionaires instead

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

             

The Daily Telegraph of Melbourne has published a story about the super yacht Lady E and its owner,  billionaire David  Russell , who is from Melbourne but now lives in Singapore. 

In 2019 Euromoney published an investigative story about how Russell made his billions,.The story included a reference to an entity representing the "Malaysian state": 

The inside story of Equis and its partners’ $800 million bounty

                                                              The partners (led by Australian David Russell ),most of them ex-Macquarie bankers, had delivered for their investors, who included some of the biggest institutional names in the world: the University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Company (Utimco), Partners Group, Willis Towers Watson, BlackRock, JPMorgan Pension, numerous Australian superannuation funds, and others representing the Dutch, German and Malaysian state.                                                                                                         

Over $500 million of the proceeds was allocated to a separate vehicle from which the limited partners (LPs – investors like pension funds) were excluded. The result of that was that David Russell and his colleagues are believed to have walked away with as much as $800 million, more than 20% of the gross equity proceeds. Even in the high-octane world of private equity, that’s quite something.

Did they take away too much? Since they were entitled to hundreds of millions of dollars by any estimation, wasn’t that enough? David Russell and his partners legitimately made a fortune out of the Equis Energy sale. The question is whether more of the proceeds should have been shared with the pensioners and endowments who were ultimately funding the enterprise.

Malaysian state investment entities are expected to uplift Bumiputera welfare. In this case it appears that the unnamed Malaysian state entity created Australian billionaires instead.The Equis deal does not seem to have received much publicity in Malaysia; it is perhaps time for Malaysian agencies to ask what it is that drove the managers of the entity to be so generous to a non-Bumiputera, and a foreign one at that.

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Empowered to uplift Bumiputera welfare, Malaysian state investment fund created Australian billionaires instead

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

             

The Daily Telegraph of Melbourne has published a story about the super yacht Lady E and its owner,  billionaire David  Russell , who is from Melbourne but now lives in Singapore. 

In 2019 Euromoney published an investigative story about how Russell made his billions,.The story included a reference to an entity representing the "Malaysian state": 

The inside story of Equis and its partners’ $800 million bounty

                                                              The partners (led by Australian David Russell ),most of them ex-Macquarie bankers, had delivered for their investors, who included some of the biggest institutional names in the world: the University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Company (Utimco), Partners Group, Willis Towers Watson, BlackRock, JPMorgan Pension, numerous Australian superannuation funds, and others representing the Dutch, German and Malaysian state.                                                                                                         

Over $500 million of the proceeds was allocated to a separate vehicle from which the limited partners (LPs – investors like pension funds) were excluded. The result of that was that David Russell and his colleagues are believed to have walked away with as much as $800 million, more than 20% of the gross equity proceeds. Even in the high-octane world of private equity, that’s quite something.

Did they take away too much? Since they were entitled to hundreds of millions of dollars by any estimation, wasn’t that enough? David Russell and his partners legitimately made a fortune out of the Equis Energy sale. The question is whether more of the proceeds should have been shared with the pensioners and endowments who were ultimately funding the enterprise.

Malaysian state investment entities are expected to uplift Bumiputera welfare. In this case it appears that the unnamed Malaysian state entity created Australian billionaires instead.The Equis deal does not seem to have received much publicity in Malaysia; it is perhaps time for Malaysian agencies to ask what it is that drove the managers of the entity to be so generous to a non-Bumiputera, and a foreign one at that.

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Deputy NSW Police Commissioner Catherine Burns failed to prevent Pakistan ISI linked Dawood Ibrahim from expanding his criminal empire into NSW - Burns is now Dep Director ASIS where her job requires her to prevent the ISI from undermining Australian interests

 by Ganesh Sahathevan

   Former NSW Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burns, now Deputy Director General ASIS 

Former Deputy NSW Police Commissioner Catherine Burns was in charge of "Special Operations" between 2012-2019. That included counter-terrorism where Ms Burns is probably best remembered for her mishandling of the Lindt Cafe siege.

Since then Burns has been appointed one of two deputy directors of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, and she may well one day succeed ASIS chief Paul Lyons as the country's top spy, in charge of countering threats from foreign spy agencies. Her current position probably includes that type of work.

In that regard it is useful to recount her lack of success, while serving as NSW Police Deputy Commissioner in charge of counter-terrorism, in preventing one of India's best known gangsters, Dawood Ibrahim, from operating in Australia, and in particular NSW see story below). 

Dawood is believed to be in Pakistan, where he is understood to be an asset of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) Dawood is believed to have organised the 26/11 attacks in 1993, among other incidents. These include the 2008 Taj Mahal Hotel killings. The ISI's reliance on jihadis to further Pakistan's interests are a matter of public record.

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Monday, October 26, 2015

NSW Police, AFP let loose jihadi financier: Dawood Ibrahim's Australian interests protected to win the Muslim vote?

by Ganesh Sahathevan

 NSW Police had these matters brought   to their attention in 2008, after the Indian gangster and ISI

operative Dawood Ibrahim was implicated in the 2008 Mumbai attack:

According to well placed sources, Dawood has vast business interests in the hospitality industry in the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Australia and India. Several shopping malls in the West and Australia are also reportedly owned by the family. An airline from a Central Asian republic is also being allegedly funded by the D-company.

NSW Police and the AFP (assuming intelligence is shared) were also made aware that there was  within at least the legal  system a startling lack of understanding as to who Dawood Ibrahim is, as evidenced by the decisoon in  NAFF v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs

Despite all this ,Dawood Ibrahim's interests in Australia seem to have been ignored, even if the AFP kept a close watch on his rival , Chota Rajan aka Ranjendra Sadashiv Nikalje(see story below).

This looks like another case of the NSW Police and AFP appeasing the Muslim community, and both sides of politics doing whatever necessary to win the Muslim vote.

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Indian alleged mobster who lived in Australia, was arrested in Bali after being on the run for 20 years

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Ranjendra Sadashiv Nikalje, who was wanted by Intertpol for year,s was arrested on Sunday as he arrived in Bali on a Garuda flight from Sydney, Australia.

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AN INDIAN alleged mobster’s 20 years on the run, most recently living in Australia, ended on the weekend when his plane touched down in Bali.

He was planning a 15-day stay on the holiday island. But now he is in a jail cell at Denpasar police station, nabbed as he left the plane which had flown him from Sydney to Bali.

The alleged boss of one of India’s major crime syndicates has been living quietly in Australia now for quite some time.

His charmed life, evading authorities across South East Asia for years, including a daring escape from a Bangkok hospital after he almost died, came to an end when last month he was identified living in our midst.

Australian Federal Police notified their Indian counterparts that the man using the name Kumar Mohan was in fact one of their most wanted — Ranjendra Sadashiv Nikalje also known as Chotta Rajan or Little Rajan or Nana — who is accused of involvement in more than 20 murders and a string of crimes.

Nikalje was arrested about 1.50pm Bali time on Sunday after arriving on a Garuda flight from Sydney.

Denpasar police general crime chief, Reinhard Habonaran Nainggolan, said authorities in Indonesia had been told he was alleged to have masterminded 15-25 murders in India.

He said local police were now co-ordinating with police headquarters in Jakarta about the process for extradition back to India.

Living it up ... Ranjendra Sadashiv Nikalje was on the way to Bali, Indonesia.Source:Supplied

Nikalje has been on the run from authorities since about 1995 and was wanted on an Interpol Red Notice. However, as a Red Notice, is not an arrest warrant under Australian law he could not be arrested in Australia. Indonesian Interpol says the Red notice was issued in July 1995.

Nikalje’s Wikipedia entry claims that he began his criminal career scalping cinema tickets and went on to become a lieutenant of another gangster, the leader of the notorious D-Company crime gang.

The pair went separate ways in 1996 and in 1988 Nikalje is said to have fled to Dubai, where he allegedly continued to operate and pull the strings of his crime syndicate.

He then turned up in Thailand where his adversaries tracked him down and attempted to kill him, succeeding in gunning down his aides. In a Bangkok hospital after the attempt on his life and as Indian police put in place moves for his extradition, he is said to have escaped after bribing hospital staff.

He reportedly now suffers diabetes and requires kidney dialysis.

An Australian Federal Police spokesman said that in September this year the AFP had confirmed that Nikalje was living in Australia under another name and advised the Indian authorities and Interpol.

On Sunday Nikalje left Australia bound for Bali.

Interpol in Canberra alerted the Indonesian authorities who arrested him, at the request of India, when the plane landed.

 

 

 

Dawood Ibrahim's many lives http://www.deccanherald.com/archives/nov122005/national21254020051111.asp

From Deepak K Upreti  DH News Service New Delhi:

The CBI's success with Abu Salem, a one-time key operative of the infamous D-company, has brought the focus back on Dawood Ibrahim, the criminal extraordinaire and prime accused in the Mumbai serial bomb blasts case. 

Dawood is learnt to have literally put on a new face, thanks to plastic surgery to escape the prying eyes of the International Criminal Police Organization after Washington declared him a "global terrorist". 

The US prompted the United Nations also into listing Dawood as a "global terrorist". While US order froze all assets belonging to him within the US and prohibited US nationals from transacting with him, the UN listing required that all UN member-states take similar actions. Dawood who lived in "style" in a posh locale of Karachi under the protection of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), is now desperately looking for a "safer hideout" outside Pakistan. 

It is believed that Dawood is now sharing his smuggling routes with Osama-bin-Laden's terrorist outfit al-Qaeda and funding attacks by Islamic extremists aimed at destabilising India. 

He is known to have financed the activities of Lashkar-e-Toiba, a group outlawed by the US in October 2001 and apparently banned by the Pakistani government in January 2002. The Lashkar is also suspected to be involved in the recent Delhi blasts. 

Apart from the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, Dawood is wanted in several cases including for drug trafficking, contract killings, aiding and abetting terrorism and so on. 

Dawood's influence in Mumbai filmdom with many top cine actors and actresses, directors and producers courting him and his henchmen is all too well known. Congress MP from Mumbai and Bollywood actor Govinda was recently in news for a video footage that caught him with the underworld criminal in Dubai. 

It is estimated that Dawood and his family own assets worth Rs 1720 crore including several buildings at prime locations of Mumbai such as Colaba, Crawford Market, Bhendi Bazar, Bandra, Oshiwara and Versova. Many of these are "benami" making it difficult to confiscate them. The family also has several builders, stockbrokers and jewellers operating as fronts for it. 

According to well placed sources, Dawood has vast business interests in the hospitality industry in the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Australia and India. Several shopping malls in the West and Australia are also reportedly owned by the family. An airline from a Central Asian republic is also being allegedly funded by the D-company. 

Apart from Salem, another erstwhile hit man to desert the D-company is Chota Rajan. It is alleged that Rajan is now targeting Dawood in tandem with the Indian intelligence agencies. 

Dawood's underworld saga appears to be "timeless" stretching many generations and is unlikely to see an end as long as his crime (business) syndicate keeps receiving political and police patronage within the country and as also from across the border in Pakistan. 

Salem's "homecoming" will have no significant impact on the deadly acts of the D-empire.

Jihadist wins immigration appeal

December 8, 2004 - 1:10PM

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A man claiming to be member of an Islamic group who was arrested in India for planning a bomb attack today won a High Court case against Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone.

The High Court ruled a member of the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) did not allow the man, known as Naff, procedural fairness.

It quashed the RRT's decision to refuse Naff refugee status and ordered it to redetermine his application for a review of the case.

Naff is a Muslim Tamil who said he was an active member of the Indian Union Muslim League and of a committee of the Jihad Movement.

He was president of an organisation in his village associated with a movement led by a benevolent Muslim industrialist, Dawood Ibrahim, whom he said he met in Bombay.

Naff was arrested with 30 other Muslims in India in December 1998 and accused of planning to plant bombs.

He said he was severely beaten before being released a few days later and later decided to flee India to save his life.

In March 2000, an Australian Immigration Department officer refused Naff's application for a protection visa, rejecting his claim he met Ibrahim in India and that he was involved with the Jihad Movement.

Naff applied to the RRT for review of that decision.

The RRT held a hearing into Naff's case in February 2002, with questioning revealing inconsistencies in his evidence, including the dates he was detained and the number of detentions.

At the end of the hearing, the RRT member told Naff that given the inconsistencies she would write to him asking for more information.

However, she failed to write and instead the RRT rejected his application, saying Ibrahim was regarded by Indian authorities as a gangster so he was unlikely to have travelled to India and met Naff.

The RRT also said belonging to the Jihad Movement contradicted Naff's claim of opposing violence.

The Federal Court of Australia dismissed Naff's application for orders quashing the RRT decision.

However, the High Court granted Naff special leave to appeal over the failure of the RRT member to write to him.

The court today held that with her closing remarks, the RRT member was acknowledging that the review's purposes had not been completely fulfilled.

"She was indicating that she had not yet finished receiving the presentation of arguments by the appellant which he had been invited to make," the High Court said in its judgment.

"She was saying that procedural fairness required some further steps to be taken.

"It is clear that the tribunal member was in the best position to judge whether the review process was incomplete.

"Her conduct is only consistent with the formation of a firm impression that it was."

The High Court held that depriving Naff of the opportunity to answer questions was a breach of procedural fairness and unanimously allowed his appeal.

It quashed the RRT's review decision and ordered it to redetermine the application for review.

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Malaysian regulators permitting Air Asia X to trade while insolvent, while it threatens passengers demanding refunds ; meanwhile Tony Fernandes seeks intervention of Malaysia's King Abdullah to "reset" his and AAX's fortunes

 by Ganesh Sahathevan

                                           The "national reset"

Air Asia X has been trading while insolvent since at least last October(see story below. Malaysian regulators ought to have stopped it from doing so, but have instead chosen to look the other way, even as the company threatens passengers seeking refunds. The Vibes, quoting Deputy Chairman Lim Kian Onn reported: 

.... it is in the best interest of our passengers to allow us to fly again so that we are in a position to honour their travel credits with us.

“Put simply, the alternative is that everyone loses without any chance of recovery of what is owed if we are not successful in this restructuring.” 

The company is seeking court orders  to avoid paying creditors, but in order to do so the courts will have to ignore serious regulatory issues, including findings by the UK Serious Fraud Office.

Meanwhile AAX's major shareholder and its effective chief  executive Tony Fernandes has joined with a number  of others in a petition to Malaysia's King Abdullah, asking the monarch to hand them powers to "reset" the economy.  It is hard to see how that "reset" will not be to the detriment of AAX's passengers.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2020

“We have run out of money": AAX Deputy Chairman Lim Kian Onn has admitted that AAX has no money- Investigation into when AAX began trading while insolvent required as a matter of urgency, immediately after receivers are appointed

 by Ganesh Sahathevan

The following reported by Travel Daily and others, quoting Air Asia X Deputy Chairman Lim Kian Onn: 

“We have run out of money. Obviously, banks will not finance the company without shareholders, both old and new, putting in fresh equity. So, a prerequisite is fresh equity,” Lim said. He added the airline had actual liabilities of MYR 2 billion (USD 0.48 billion), with the larger figure of MYR 63.5 billion (USD 15.31 billion) including all lease payments for the next eight to 10 years and its large order for Airbus SE planes and contracted engine maintenance with Rolls-Royce Holdings.

“If we find MYR 300 million (USD 72.32 million) in new equity, then the shareholder funds are MYR 300 million (USD 72.32 million) at the restart of business and if we are able to borrow MYR 200 million (USD 48.21 million), we feel that we will have a good platform to start all over again,” he told The Star newspaper. Lim said AirAsia X also needed to convince its lessors of its business plan, adding an unnamed lessor recently took back one of the airline’s planes to convert it to a freighter.

Lim's statements should be read with AAX's email sent to customers recently, where refunds were refused on the basis on an imagined court order. AAX belongs in the hands of receivers, and current management need to be investigated for trading while insolvent. 

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Tony Tajuddin Fernandes claims he needs court approval to refund tickets for Air Asia X cancelled flights: SC , consumer regulators, creditors should formalise the court process that Fernandes imagines, and seek court orders to appoint receivers ASAP

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NSW ICAC lost credibility when it failed to pursue Zhu Minshen donations to NSW Liberals, Zhu's business with the NSW LPAB & grant of law school license that followed donations

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

NSW ICAC may not be a kangaroo court but it has only itself to blame for its loss of credibility.ICAC Commissioner Peter Hall QC decided not to pursue Zhu Minshen's poltical donations despite the evidence before him (see story below).

Zhu's donations to the NSW Liberal Party coincided with the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board (NSW LPAB)granting Zhu his " very unique" license to issue law degrees in NSW.The NSW LPAB comprised a number of senior judges, and is chaired by the Chief Justice NSW, Tom Bathurst QC AC..

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Friday, September 6, 2019

Peter Hall QC and ICAC ignore former AG George Brandis in their determination to not call Minshen Zhu and Top Group

by Ganesh Sahathevan




As previously reported on this blog:

ICAC's own documents show that Peter Hall QC is unduly concerned with Huang Xiangmo for  many other donors were involved in that 15 March 2015 dinner that has become the subject matter of ICAC's "public inquiry into allegations concerning political donations".

In September 2016 former Commonwealth AG George Brandis was reported to have said in Parliament:
 Yuhu Group chairman Huang Xiangmo had been quoted in the Chinese media "complaining that Australian MPs were 'not delivering' on donations from the Chinese community"

These donations included money Dastyari and the ALP received from Minshen Zhu and his Top Group.

ICAC's own documents show that Zhu was a donor at that dinner. Zhu has also been reported to have made a political donation to Kogarah MP Chis Minns campaign, despite Minns having " no idea how the businessman, Top Education Group chief Minshen Zhu, came to nominate his campaign on the cheque, written on March 17 (2015)".

In ICAC's own words ,the general scope and purpose of the public inquiry is to gather evidence relevant to the allegation being investigated under section 13A of the Independent Commission Against Corruption Act 1988. This section addresses the ICAC’s function of investigating matters referred to it by the NSW Electoral Commission.

Given "the general scope" it is hard to see why  Minshen Zhu is not being called as a witness.


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Escalating criticism

Last week, Senator Dastyari's comments were raised in Parliament by the nation's highest lawmaker, Attorney-General George Brandis.

In September 2016 then Attorney General Senator Brandis questioned whether the then  Labor frontbencher Sam Dastyari had been compromised by Minshen Zhu and his Top Group.

He laid out his reasoning in Parliament:

• Top Education Institute — a company with links to Beijing through its principal Minshen Zhu — paid for an overspend on staff travel in Senator Dastyari's office.
• Senator Dastyari said the bill was $1,670.82, but Senator Brandis wants a receipt or other proof of the amount to be disclosed.
• Senator Brandis also wanted a dollar figure and receipt for another payment — a legal bill settled by the Yuhu Group.
• He said Yuhu Group chairman Huang Xiangmo had been quoted in the Chinese media "complaining that Australian MPs were 'not delivering' on donations from the Chinese community".
• Senator Brandis maintains in both cases that Senator Dastyari called on Chinese donors to pay personal debts, rather than donations.
• A day earlier, when the travel bill was first reported by Fairfax, Senator Dastyari gave a brief speech in Parliament saying in hindsight he should not have accepted the assistance with the travel bill, and that he would donate a commensurate amount to charity.
• Senator Brandis said that explanation was "woefully inadequate" and lasted for only 66 words.
• The Attorney-General also pointed to reports Senator Dastyari urged Australia to drop its opposition to China's air defence zone in the South China Sea.
• He also referred to a speech the senator made on March 17 2014, on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Senator Dastyari said he was presenting the "Chinese view".
• Senator Brandis further referred to an exchange in Senate Estimates on June 2, 2014. The former defence minister David Johnston said Senator Dastyari was asking sensitive questions about Australia's position on the South China Sea that were not "in the national interest".

The Attorney-General has said: "Senator Dastyari's acceptance of personal benefits from an entity or entities with links to the Chinese state and the carefully opaque way in which the payments have been described in the Register of Senators' Interests raise the inevitable question of whether Senator Dastyari, whether advertently or unwittingly, has allowed himself to be compromised".

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Sam Dastyari patron gave $2,000 for Labor candidate he has never met

By Sean Nicholls

UpdatedSeptember 12, 2016 — 3.55pmfirst published at3.24pm

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The businessman at the centre of the political furore over Senator Sam Dastyari wrote a cheque for $2000 to a Labor candidate at last year's state election who he has never met.

Kogarah MP Chris Minns says he has no idea how the businessman, Top Education Group chief Minshen Zhu, came to nominate his campaign on the cheque, written on March 17 last year.

The organiser of the Chinese Friends of Labor event for which donation was made, Labor MLC Ernest Wong, has previously said he has "no knowledge" of the donation.

But on Monday he said: "I suggest to members of the Chinese community that if they want to support Labor then they should do so in areas where there is a large number of Chinese people living there."

"Chinese people make up about 40 per cent of Kogarah. The cheque was never cashed."

Kogarah has the highest percentage of people of Chinese descent in Australia - a fact noted by Mr Minns in his inaugural speech a month after the cheque was written, during which he called for mandatory Mandarin lessons for NSW schoolchildren.

Senator Dastyari last week quit the opposition front bench over his declaration to parliament that at his request Top Education had paid a $1670 overspend in his office travel entitlement.

The following day Fairfax Media reported that the whereabouts of the $2000 cheque remained a mystery more than a year after it was written.

Election funding records shows the donation was for the annual Chinese Friends of Labor event held at The Eight restaurant in Sydney's Chinatown four days earlier and attended by more than 600 guests.

However, a return lodged with the NSW Electoral Commission by Top Education states: "Cheque received by ALP but hasn't been banked yet."

The cheque was never received by the party office and Top Education has declined to comment.

But Mr Minns has since revealed the cheque was received by his office.

He said it was never cashed it as it was not accompanied with a form stating that Dr Zhu and Top Education were entitled to donate to NSW election campaigns.

"When my campaign received the cheque in March 2015 it did not have the required documentation to ensure it came from an eligible donor," Mr Minns said.

"In the absence of that we decided to err on the side of caution and not process the donation."

However, election funding records show NSW Labor accepted a $1000 donation from Top Education on April 17 tied to a fundraiser hosted by Senator Dastyari at Sydney's Chinatown restaurant.

Senator Dastyari has said there is no link between the cheque and the payment of his travel debt.

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