Men charged over Sydney stairwell death

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Police found the body of Tao Cheng in the stairwell of a hotel in Sydney's CBD earlier this month. -PR Handout Image

Two men have been charged with murder over the suspicious death of a Chinese man whose body was found in the stairwell of a Sydney hotel.

Police found 25-year-old Tao Cheng's body in the hotel on Kent Street in the CBD on December 7.

Police believe his body had been in the stairwell for three days.

On Thursday police released CCTV vision showing two men walking through the hotel hallway and the following day arrested a 27-year-old man at a licensed premises at Campsie in Sydney's southwest.

He was charged with murder, appeared in court and was refused bail to next appear at Downing Centre Local Court on February 16.

A 25-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday on Stradbroke Island in Queensland and charged by virtue of a NSW arrest warrant for murder.

Strike Force Feyer investigators will fly to Queensland to apply for the man's extradition to NSW in the coming days.