19 Apr 2018

Daphne Project: Is NZ still a tax haven?

From Morning Report, 7:11 am on 19 April 2018

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 clients. Sources claim this network leads back to the Azerbaijan government, which has been accused of corruption and money laundering. The New Zealand link was uncovered as part of the Daphne Project a media investigation involving 46 journalists from 16 countries. The collaboration was created to pick up the work of the murdered Maltese journalist-blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia. The journalist Nicky Hager explains where his part of the investigation has led.