{"id":715,"date":"2026-03-19T20:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8f78d64a724c5b5cd310d74f84a6f89a"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","slug":"australian-businessman-was-chinese-spy-asset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"Australian businessman was Chinese spy asset"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/australian-businessman-was-chinese-spy-asset.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/policy\/foreign-affairs\/man-accused-of-foreign-interference-used-public-documents-court-hears-20230417-p5d126\">Australian businessman<\/a> recklessly compiled reports for individuals he should have suspected were Chinese spies, a jury has found.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/federal\/businessman-fabricated-rudd-reports-for-chinese-agents-for-cash-20260219-p5o3to\">Alexander Csergo<\/a>, 59, was running a business in Shanghai when he was approached on LinkedIn in November 2021 by a woman claiming to be from a Chinese think tank.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian businessman recklessly compiled reports for individuals he should have suspected were Chinese spies, a jury has found. Alexander Csergo, 59, was running a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}