CANBERRA, ACT, Sept. 10 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
Editor's Note: Vision of the man's arrest in 2023 is available via Hightail.
A NSW man has been sentenced to up to three and a half years' imprisonment for knowingly compiling reports for a foreign intelligence service.
The Australian national, now 58, is the second individual to be convicted of a foreign interference offence.
He was sentenced by the NSW District Court today (10 September, 2026), to a maximum custodial sentence of three years and six months, with a non-parole period of one year and 10 months.
On 13 March, 2026, a jury found the man guilty of reckless foreign interference, contrary to section 92.3 of the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth)...