Category: Major investigations
No Defence
War is hell. Soldiering is not for sissies. But is a defence force that regularly covers up and denies wrongdoings among its ranks – from war crimes and sexual abuse to drunkenness and battlefield souveniring – operating above the law? In this exclusive investigative report, Nicky Hager reveals a culture of impunity within the New Zealand Defence Force.
Hit and Run, The New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan and the meaning of honour
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.
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.
Panama Papers: Law firms’ links to Mossack Fonseca
Panama Papers NZ – New Zealand law firms that lobbied the government in 2014 against shutting down the foreign trust industry in this country had extensive links to Mossack Fonseca.
Panama Papers: Nicky Hager on the selling of secrecy
Panama Papers NZ – My first experience of the tax haven world was in 2012-2013 when I worked with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on an earlier and smaller tax haven leak. It was a sobering introduction to how much a network of secretive tax havens can cause harm for the rest of the world.
Panama Papers: NZ at heart of Panama money-go-round
Panama Papers NZ – New Zealand is at the heart of a tangled web of secretive shelf companies and obscure trusts being used by well-heeled South Americans to organise their private wealth, business affairs, and channel their funds around the world.
Panama Papers: The story so far
Panama Papers NZ – To what extent has New Zealand been caught up in the leaks, after the first documents were made public early last month?