{"id":829391,"date":"2026-07-28T16:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/829391\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:21:10","slug":"man-charged-after-alleged-bribe-attempt-involving-bag-of-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/829391\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after alleged bribe attempt involving bag of tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese man will face court after allegedly trying to bribe a public official with $20,000 hidden inside a bag of tea.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged the man, 39, set up a business meeting with a Commonwealth official in Camp Hill, an inner city suburb of Brisbane, on July 9.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a3e9b51ff3b55b160b8e9092075bbf7c75ef0e33c2ed7c0199328f9dc5d45c3a.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">The man was arrested in Sydney after attempting to board a flight.\u00a0AFP\/Queensland Police<\/p>\n<p>Police claim during the meeting, the man handed the official a bag of tea.<\/p>\n<p>However, the official later allegedly found $20,000 in cash inside the bag, which police claim was for attempted business gain.<\/p>\n<p>The official reported the alleged bribe attempt to authorities, and after investigations between Queensland Police and Australian Federal Police, the man was arrested as he attempted to board a flight at Sydney International Airport on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He was extradited to Queensland the next morning, and charged with one count of gift or offer a secret commission to an agent.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chinese man will face court after allegedly trying to bribe a public official with $20,000 hidden inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-829391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829391","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=829391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}