Politicians sound alarm about 'extrajudicial extradition' of Chinese-born Australian resident

Chinese police hunting international corruption targets were allowed into Australia by the federal police and subsequently escorted a woman back to China for trial, in a major breach of Chinese-Australian police protocols. The Chinese police were permitted to enter Australia in 2019 to talk with a 59-year-old Chinese-born Australian resident. The woman was targeted under a Chinese Communist Party anti-corruption drive called Operation Fox Hunt, which relies on police from the Ministry of Public Security to make arrests. The article stated the officers came to Australia with the "strong support" of the Chinese embassy in Canberra and the consulate-general in Sydney. Four Corners has established the MPS officers were approved to come here under an agreement with the Australian Federal Police but once they were here, they breached protocol and returned to China with the woman. Mr Khalil said this was just the latest in a series of worrying cases regarding Chinese government interference in Australia. The AFP would neither discuss the 2019 case nor reveal whether other people had been similarly interviewed in Australia, or returned to China, by Chinese police.