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Former NSW Labor MP Ernest Wong and restaurateur Jonathan Yee will face prosecution over allegations they circumvented donation laws in Chris Minn’s seat of Kohgarah a decade ago

Two Labor figures face charges over alleged illegal donations to premier

Former MP Ernest Wong and restaurateur Jonathan Yee will both face prosecution over allegations they were involved in a scheme to circumvent NSW donor laws in Premier Chris Minns’s electorate 11 years ago.

  • Michael McGowan and Max Maddison

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The NSW Electoral Commission has reopened an investigation into decade-old allegations Premier Chris Minns was involved in a donations scandal.

Election watchdog investigates premier’s alleged links to decade-old donations scandal

The NSW Electoral Commission has reopened an investigation into a plan to use straw donors in the lead-up to the 2015 poll.

  • Michael McGowan
Then federal and state Labor leaders, Bill Shorten and Luke Foley attending the fundraiser, along with Mr Huang (second from right) and former Labor MP Ernest Wong (second from left).

ICAC finds former NSW Labor MP Ernest Wong corrupt

The NSW corruption watchdog has found former Labor MP Ernest Wong engaged in serious corrupt conduct as part of a scheme to circumvent the state’s donation laws.

  • Tom Rabe
Daryl Maguire arrives at the ICAC on Friday.

Maguire's post-politics plans crumble amid business failures and corruption claims

The business plans of disgraced MP Daryl Maguire are in ruins with one prospective partner found dead in a pool and another in debt to Chinese business figures.

  • Kate McClymont
Exiled billionaire Huang Xiangmo has declined to give evidence at ICAC.

'Suspicious' withdrawal at Star casino before $100,000 donation: ICAC

Exactly $100,000 in cash was withdrawn from a gambling account funded by exiled billionaire Huang Xiangmo, six days before NSW Labor banked the same amount.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
Former Labor MP Ernest Wong outside ICAC on Wednesday.

Former Labor MP blames memory lapse on 'alcoholic blackout'

Ernest Wong admitted at a corruption inquiry that the effect of some of his dealings was to conceal the true source of political donations to the party.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
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Power and Paranoia: Why the Chinese government aggressively pushes beyond its borders

The Chinese government’s covert operations in Australia are considerable. Can Australia push back without economic consequences?

  • Peter Hartcher