Author: Nicky Hager
What an attack on journalism feels like
Nicky Hager describes how police targeted his daughter’s mobile number and even his TradeMe records of tadpole purchases in their hunt for the sources behind “Dirty Politics”. He explains the chilling effect of the police raid and why it should never happen again.
Auckland lawyer had been banned in overseas tax haven
An Auckland lawyer, central to an RNZ investigation into alleged money-laundering, had been prohibited from operating in any function as a fiduciary in the tax haven of Guernsey for five years shortly before starting work as a trust and company lawyer here.
Headline: Daphne Project: New Zealand still a haven for some?
An Auckland company may be caught up in an international money laundering controversy after it was identified helping to manage a network of New Zealand-registered companies and trusts for its secret clients.
Hit and Run, The New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan and the meaning of honour
Sunlight did what sunlight does: Nicky Hager on Dirty Politics, three years on
Dirty Politics landed like a bombshell in the NZ election campaign of 2014. It may not have affected that outcome, but that was never the ambition. It has, however, made a big impact on our politics, argues Nicky Hager
One News: Taxpayer-funded grants to NZ tech firm used to build surveillance equipment for UK government
Taxpayer-funded grants to a private New Zealand tech firm were used to build mass surveillance equipment for Britain’s largest intelligence agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
ONE News: Special investigation: Inside one of the SIS’s biggest anti-terrorism operations
One of the Security Intelligence Service’s biggest ever anti-terrorism operations – conducted between July and August 2012 – targeted a group of pro-democracy campaigners who it mistakenly thought were planning to overthrow the military government in Fiji.
NZ Herald: US warship visit to New Zealand
Visit would show America, not NZ, has changed stance, writes Nicky Hager
Panama Papers: How to sidestep NZ disclosure rules
EXCLUSIVE – Panama Papers NZ – Mossack Fonseca’s main New Zealand agent, Roger Thompson, drafted legal documents for his foreign clients instructing them to avoid countries that have information-sharing agreements with New Zealand, the Panama Papers show.