Sheri Yan, jailed for bribing UN official, was target of secret ASIO raid in 2015

Agents from the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) found a cache of secret government files when they broke into a Canberra home in October 2015 while searching for evidence that one of the occupants might be a Chinese spy. Sheri Yan and husband Roger Uren Credit:Black Tie Magazine Mr Uren is suspected of having removed them from his former employer, the Office of National Assessments, prior to his departure from the agency in August 2001. The raid in October 2015 came as Ms Yan was arrested by the FBI in New York for bribing a senior United Nations official for which she was jailed last year after pleading guilty to bribery charges. She was jailed last year for corruption after pleading guilty to bribery charges. The diagram was reportedly created for Mr Lewis to show senior officials of Australia’s major political parties and to warn them about accepting political donations from foreign sources. The daughter of a celebrated Chinese artist and People's Liberation Army member, Yan is also known to have impeccable Communist Party connections. Credit:Black Tie Magazine The ASIO operation raises the prospect that Australia has been the target of a Chinese intelligence operation, along with figures inside the United Nations. The revelations are part of a series of investigative reports by Fairfax Media and Four Corners into the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to infiltrate Australian institutions and cultivate links to political figures. The raid targeted Sheri Yan and former Australian diplomat Roger Uren, over allegations she was involved in operations for the Chinese Communist Party, a Fairfax Media and Four Corners investigation reported.
Reports emerge of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation's discovery of classified Australian documents, related to Chinese intelligence activity abroad, in the Canberra home of a woman allegedly acting on behalf of the Communist Party of China.