{"id":48313,"date":"2022-09-08T19:21:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T10:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/08\/call-investigation-marshall-islands-chinese-couple-alleged-plot-mini-state"},"modified":"2022-09-08T19:21:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T10:21:09","slug":"ex-president-demands-inquiry-into-marshall-islands-mini-state-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48313","title":{"rendered":"Ex-president demands inquiry into Marshall Islands \u2018mini-state plot\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hilda Heine calls for investigation into Chinese couple\u2019s alleged efforts to bribe officials to help set up tax haven<\/p>\n<p>A former president of the Marshall Islands has called for an investigation into an alleged plot by a Chinese couple to establish a mini-state inside its borders and set it up as a lucrative tax-break haven.<\/p>\n<p>The pair were charged by US prosecutors with bribery and money-laundering offences over a \u201cmulti-year scheme\u201d that included establishing a non-governmental organisation, allegedly bribing five Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) officials and attempting to bribe a sixth. One of the five was allegedly given cash to bribe others into supporting the carving out of a Hong Kong-style territory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/08\/call-investigation-marshall-islands-chinese-couple-alleged-plot-mini-state\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hilda Heine calls for investigation into Chinese couple\u2019s alleged efforts to bribe officials to help set up tax havenA former president of the Marshall Islands has called for an investigation into an alleged plot by a Chinese couple to establish a mini&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,602,874,74,765,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-marshall-islands","category-pacific-islands","category-taiwan","category-tax-havens","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48314,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48313\/revisions\/48314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}