Anthony Albanese says he is "not aware of those issues" over tax claims on billionaire Phillip Lee

An ABC investigation has reported that Australian billionaire Phillip Lee’s fortune is linked to a corruption case centered on his father-in-law, a former Guangdong transport official; a Chinese court found in 2005 that an expressway project awarded to Lee’s company had been inflated by over 100 million yuan. Lee has not been accused in that matter. Lee’s son Felix hosted a Labor fundraiser at the family’s Sydney mansion last month, attended by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. The Australian Taxation Office had sought more than $278 million in unpaid tax from Lee and his wife, obtaining court orders to freeze assets; the Lees denied wrongdoing and later settled, with a charge still on the property. Asked whether those tax claims worried him, Albanese said he had no knowledge of the issue and noted Phillip Lee was not present. Integrity expert Geoffrey Watson called the prime minister’s attendance inappropriate.