He’s at the centre of a growing political scandal, and tonight TGIF Edition can reveal Chinese millionaire Yang Liu is not who he claims to be – his New Zealand passport, political donations, expensive properties, bank accounts, immigration status and company directorships were all obtained using a false name and identification.

Liu, whose political donations to the Labour Party were linked by Department of Internal Affairs staff in TGIF last week to his obtaining NZ citizenship via direct ministerial intervention, is wanted in China for trial on charges of embezzling quarter of a billion New Zealand dollars.

His real name, confirmed for the first time in this country by TGIF Edition, is indeed Yongming Yan (referred to from here in as Yan Yongming in the Chinese reverse style where the surname is used first) – the identity on a second passport published on the front page of last week’s newspaper.

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