Government worker who allegedly used $49k of public money to fund personal overseas trips allowed to travel to China
Quan Liu, 49, allegedly used public funds to purchase flights and accommodation for four overseas trips over a period of 14 months.
The Australian Federal Police has also accused Ms Liu of using a falsified visa letter to support claims she was travelling for work, and that she arranged a false document for a foreign national to get a visa to enter Australia.
She was charged with official abuse public office to gain advantage, dishonestly intend to obtain a gain, and deliver document containing false statement after the AFP searched her home back in December last year.
Ms Liu has not yet entered any pleas.
She was required to surrender her passport to the AFP before she was released on conditional bail and is prohibited from applying for a new passport or other travel document.
Ms Liu also cannot leave the country or enter any international point of departure.
However, she's been handed an exception between August 20 and September 14 of this year that will allow her to collect her passport and hold onto it for more than a month to travel to China.
The AFP is set to hand her passport back on August 12, according to varied bail conditions from late June seen by NewsWire.
Ms Liu is required to return her passport by September 15 upon her return from China.
Should she fail to comply with the bail acnkowledgement, which also requires her to report to her local police station daily with the exception of Sunday, she will need to forfeit $1m.
She is expected to front court on July 9.
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