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Marketing executive denies allegations he sold information to foreign spies
Attorney general Mark Dreyfus has approved foreign interference charges against an Australian marketing executive who worked in China, seven months after the man was arrested by police on his return from Shanghai.
Alexander Csergo, 55, who appeared on video link in a Sydney court on Wednesday, has been in custody since his arrest by Australian Federal Police in April at his mother’s beachside Bondi home. He was the first person charged with “reckless foreign interference”, and the second person charged under a law that criminalises activity that helps a foreign power interfere with Australia’s sovereignty or national interests. It carries a maximum 15-year prison sentence.
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