Author and Investigative Journalist
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 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 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 – 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 NZ – To what extent has New Zealand been caught up in the leaks, after the first documents were made public early last month?
Five Eyes allies identified a diplomatic data link between Chinese offices as a target for hacking. Nicky Hager and Ryan Gallagher dissect the plan.
A top secret document reveals New Zealand’s surveillance agency spied on candidates vying to be the director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), a job sought by National Government minister Tim Groser.
The GCSB not only spies on the Solomon Islands using its Waihopai satellite interception base – it also had a secret listening post inside the country, according to documents provided by the United States National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Why did the GCSB intercept emails to and from Solomon Island officials? Nicky Hager and Ryan Gallagher report
New Zealand spies on Vietnam, China, India, Pakistan, South American nations and a range of other countries to help fill gaps in worldwide surveillance operations by the United States National Security Agency (NSA), documents show.