Australian Police Search Head of South African Flight School Training Retired Chinese PLA Pilots – Liberty Times Newsletter International

[Compilation Guan Shuping/Comprehensive Report]The Australian police told the Sydney Federal Court on the 17th that the police were investigating a retired British military pilot who was suspected of participating in the training of Chinese People’s Liberation Army pilots at the South African flight school, and searched for the pilot. home in Australia.

The Australian Federal Police told the court that officers searched the home of Keith Hartley, a retired British pilot who was chief operations officer at the Test Flight Academy of South Africa (TFASA), in November last year. The police search warrant pointed out that Hartley was suspected of committing the crime of providing military training for Chinese military pilots, so he applied for a search; the police pointed out that the training was provided by the flight school, and Hartley was responsible for organizing the training.

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Hartley, who has not been charged, is taking legal action to seek the recovery of items seized from his home by police and to challenge the legality of the police search warrant. Both Hartley and the South African Test Flight Academy have denied committing any crimes, according to a statement from Hartley’s lawyer Dennis Miralis.

Both the British and Australian governments have announced that they will ban retired military pilots from training Chinese pilots. The UK has also vowed to amend national security regulations to prevent retired personnel from working for intermediaries such as the South African flight school.

Craig Lenehan, a senior barrister who defended Hartley in court, told the Federal Court that the police search warrant did not specify how Hartley participated in the training, and questioned the police’s reference to “military hardware platforms” referring to aircraft, Flight simulators, or software.

Perry Herzfeld, a senior barrister representing the police, retorted that in view of Hartley’s rich flying experience, including test pilots, he must have understood the meaning immediately when he saw the search warrant. “Training is provided to pilots of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.” And when the police applied for a search warrant, they were not asked to explain how the Chinese military funded the training.

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