Australian police accessed Chinese diplomats' emails and messages as part of foreign political interference investigation

 Australian police accessed the communications of top Chinese diplomats and named a Chinese consular official in a warrant as part of an investigation into political interference, in the months before a crackdown on Australians in China.

Key points:

Correspondence between Chinese diplomats and a policy adviser to NSW Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane has been seized by Australian police

The seizures were made as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to infiltrate the NSW Labor Party

The Consulate-General in Sydney says the accusations are "nothing but vicious slanders"

The ABC has uncovered explosive details of the highly sensitive investigation that has privately infuriated the Chinese Government in recent months as the Australia-China relationship has deteriorated into its worst crisis since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

Read more:  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-15/australian-police-accessed-chinese-diplomat-communications/12665724