Former Labor MP accused of lying to Icac over $100,000 table at Bill Shorten dinner

Ernest Wong tells inquiry table was not sold for $100,000, despite being presented with email he allegedly wrote confirming it had been

The former state MP, Ernest Wong, has been accused of repeatedly lying to an anti-corruption probe about whether he sold seats at then Labor leader Bill Shorten’s table to Chinese billionaire and banned donor, Huang Xiangmo, for $100,000.

Wong, a state upper house member until earlier this year, helped organise a Chinese Friends of Labor fundraising dinner featuring Shorten and other high-profile Labor figures shortly before the 2015 state election. That dinner is now at the centre of an investigation by the Independent Commission Against Corruption, which has already led to the suspension of Labor boss, Kaila Murnain.

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