The chair of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation’s board says the group has returned a $140,000 donation to Millennium Golden Eagle International.
Edward Johnson was chatting with a House committee that’s investigating allegations that Beijing orchestrated donations to the charity in an try and affect the prime minister.
Those allegations got here from a report within the Globe and Mail in February, which cited an unnamed safety supply.
Johnson instructed the committee he has confirmed with the financial institution that the corporate acquired the cash from the Trudeau Foundation.
One of the boys who organized the donation in 2016, billionaire Zhang Bin, is listed on-line as chairman of Millennium Golden Eagle International.
He can be president of the China Cultural Industry Association, which says on its web site it adheres to the “total leadership” of the Chinese Communist Party and was shaped with the approval of China’s central authorities.
Johnson says the muse has been making an attempt to return the donation because the controversy emerged nevertheless it had hassle discovering a checking account related to the corporate.
—With recordsdata from Mickey Djuric and Chuck Chiang
