Security experts and human rights advocates are sounding the alarm about the renewal of a co-operation agreement between the RCMP and China’s police force as troubling details surface at a foreign interference trial.
  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    Court documents filed at the trial of alleged double agent William Majcher reveals that at least 25 Canadian residents were targeted by Chinese police under an anti-corruption program, which doubled as a tool of transnational repression.

    Hey, uh… what were these people being charged with again?

    Xiao Jianhua and his company Tomorrow Holdings were charged with embezzlement and bribery, a court in Shanghai said.

    Xiao and his firm were found guilty of “illegally absorbing public deposits, breaching trust in the use of entrusted property… [and] illegal use of funds,” a statement from the Shanghai court quoted by AFP said. It also said Tomorrow Holdings was guilty of the “crime of bribery”.

    I’m trying to imagine a Western response to Chinese diplomats leaping to defend Sam Bankman-Fried or Jordan Belfort.

    Actually, I don’t have to imagine, because Changpeng Zhao literally ran scams in China, fled to the United States, ran scams in the United States under the protection of the US consulate, and finally pissed off enough people that he ended up in a US federal prison. At which point he lobbied the President for a pardon and is right back out scamming people again.