{"id":826150,"date":"2026-07-27T03:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T03:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/826150\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T03:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T03:31:11","slug":"chinese-national-arrested-at-airport-after-alleged-20000-cash-bribe-to-commonwealth-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/826150\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese national arrested at airport after alleged $20,000 cash bribe to Commonwealth official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A Chinese national has been arrested after he allegedly attempted to bribe a public official with a bag of tea containing $20,000 in cash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man was apprehended on July 24 as he attempted to board a flight at Sydney International Airport and was extradited back to Queensland on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 39-year-old Chinese national allegedly attempted to bribe a Commonwealth public official during a business meeting in Camp Hill, Brisbane, on July 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police have alleged that during the meeting the man handed the woman a bag of tea, which was later found to contain $20,000 cash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It is alleged the attempted bribery was for business gain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The woman reported the incident and a joint operation was launched involving Queensland Police, the Australian Federal Police and the National Anti-Corruption Commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man has been charged with one count of gifting or offering a secret commission to an agent and will appear before the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chinese national has been arrested after he allegedly attempted to bribe a public official with a bag&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29623,64,63,29622,399036,159598,651,8879,4690,399035,1108,399037,106455,150509,155534,44,2733,1158,94,131828,701],"class_list":["post-826150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-afp","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-federal-police","tag-bribe","tag-bribery","tag-brisbane","tag-cash","tag-chinese","tag-commonwealth-public-official","tag-court","tag-extradite","tag-extradition","tag-nacc","tag-national-anti-corruption-commission","tag-news","tag-nsw","tag-police","tag-qld","tag-qps","tag-queensland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}