Hunter construction tax scammer sentenced for Lovedale resort crimes

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated June 27 2017 - 11:02am, first published 5:00am
Flight: Hightrade boss Li Zhang at the opening of part of the Crowne Plaza at Lovedale in 2006. Mr Zhang left Australia in 2009 as Hightrade was being investigated.
Flight: Hightrade boss Li Zhang at the opening of part of the Crowne Plaza at Lovedale in 2006. Mr Zhang left Australia in 2009 as Hightrade was being investigated.

THE only man charged and convicted for a $100 million construction tax scam that left a trail of destruction through the Hunter region has been sentenced to five years and six months jail for his Hunter crimes after an earlier five year jail sentence for tax fraud in the Sydney area.

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