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worry – the orders for this come straight from the Leader of this fascist nation (or let's take it right back to its source in the USA)
The NZ
Herald, which seems to support Nicky Hager has it in for Kim Dotcom.
Immigration
NZ: Kim Dotcom deportation an option
Immigration
NZ says it may need to consider whether it has to deport Kim Dotcom.
30 October, 2014
Immigration
NZ says it may need to consider whether it has to deport Kim Dotcom.
Officials
were this morning making contact with the police to confirm a
previously unknown dangerous driving conviction, revealed
by the Herald today.
The
conviction was not declared by Dotcom on his application for
residency even though it came from a speeding incident just eight
months before he made his application to live in New Zealand.
Applicants
for residency are obliged to make a full disclosure of previous
convictions and seek a "special direction" waiver.
Dotcom
did so for a hacking conviction in 1994 and an insider trading
conviction in 2001 - but there was no reference to the dangerous
driving charge, to which he pleaded guilty on September 14, 2009.
He
had been travelling at 149km/h in a 50km/h zone in Albany, on
Auckland's North Shore.
In
the residency form, Dotcom signed in June 2010, there is a clear tick
in the box declaring no dangerous driving conviction.
The
Herald obtained details of
the conviction from the North Shore District Court, where it was
recorded under the name "Kim Schmitz", the identity under
which Dotcom was born.
Kim Dotcom's residency application (App users click here)
Kim Dotcom's residence special direction (App users click here)
The
Immigration NZ statement said the agency would check with police to
"confirm if there are any undeclared convictions relating to Mr
Dotcom.
"If
any adverse information is obtained, INZ will assess if there is any
liability for deportation. Any such assessment could take several
months to complete."
In
a written statement, Immigration NZ admitted it had no idea Dotcom
had a conviction for dangerous driving until it was told by the
Herald.
The
statement said Immigration NZ didn't know because it never did a
police check.
The
statement read: "Immigration New Zealand (INZ) can confirm that
Kim Dotcom did not declare a dangerous driving conviction in New
Zealand.
"Normally
there is no requirement for a New Zealand Police check if an
applicant has lived in New Zealand for less than 12 months at the
time their residence application is lodged and there are no
reasonable grounds to suspect the applicant has been charged with an
offence in New Zealand."
The
statement said it did not check because "Mr Dotcom did not
declare any convictions in New Zealand and had been living here for
less than 12 months".
The
undisclosed conviction is the latest in a string of decisions by
Immigration NZ which have raised questions over the handling of
Dotcom's residency application.
The
Heraldrevealed
this year Dotcom was given residency after the SIS raised a red flag
over the FBI investigation. Staff at the intelligence agency later
referred to "political pressure" being behind the residency
application being granted - a claim the Government has denied.
Then,
a month after Dotcom was granted residency, his lawyers revealed
previously undisclosed share trading charges in Hong Kong.
Immigration NZ staff considered deportation at the time but upheld
Dotcom's residency.
Former
Immigration Minister Jonathan Coleman was informed throughout the
process.
Immigration
NZ would initially not comment on the discovery of the dangerous
driving conviction, citing Dotcom's right to "privacy".
But
the statement today came after the Herald
pointed to a decision by Immigration NZ to release Dotcom's entire
residency file in March 2012.
At
the time, Immigration NZ said it was releasing the entire file to
assure the public it had acted properly in granting residency.
Immigration
NZ's then-acting chief executive, Steve Stuart, said staff were
"meticulous" in the checks made to grant the tycoon
residency.
Mr
Stuart said release of the residency file would show "the public
... how thoroughly we considered his application and that all factors
were taken into account before residence was granted.
"The
review found that the correct procedures and processes were indeed
followed."
Dotcom
and three others are facing an extradition hearing in February next
year in response to charges of criminal copyright violation from the
United States.
Dotcom
timeline
September
10, 2009:
Kim Dotcom is pulled over doing 149km/hr in a 50km/hr zone in Albany,
on Auckland's North Shore.
September
14, 2009: Dotcom
pleads guilty to dangerous driving through a letter presented by his
lawyer to the North Shore District Curt.
June
3, 2010:
Dotcom signs his residency application, revealing two convictions
wiped under Germany's clean slate law. He ticks "no" to
having a "dangerous driving conviction".
November
1, 2010:
Dotcom has residency granted for himself and his family.
December
15, 2010:
Dotcom arrives in New Zealand for the first time as a resident.
January
20, 2012:
Police raid the Dotcom mansion, arresting the tycoon and three others
on FBI charges of criminal copyright violation.
February
2015: The
extradition hearing on the charges is scheduled to be heard.
And
this lying arsehole ordered the police to spend 10 hours rampaging
through Nicky Hager’s house!
John
Key won't reveal Rawshark's name
The Prime
Minister John Key says he won't reveal the name given to him as the
identity of the hacker known as Rawshark, and won't pass it on to
police.
30
October , 2014
The
Prime Minister John Key says he won't reveal the name given to him as
the identity of the hacker known as Rawshark, and won't pass it on to
police.
"In
the end if the individual who told me wants to tell the police they
are welcome to do that," Mr Key said at a media conference
today.
In
a new chapter in John Key: Portrait of a Prime Minister, devoted to
this year's election campaign, Mr Key is quoted as saying: "Someone
phoned and told me who the hacker was, but other than having a look
at this person, I thought, 'Oh well ... nothing will come of it. Life
goes on'."
Mr
Key said today he had learned from the Teapot Tapes scandal in 2011.
"I
could spend my life worrying about people who undertake activities to
try to discredit the government but at the end of the day it doesn't
take you anywhere."
Asked
whether he thought the police should be focused on investigating
potential identities of Rawshark rather than investigating journalist
behind the "Dirty Politics" book, Nicky Hager, Mr Key said:
"That's a matter for them...
they
run their own inquiries."
But
the fact that Mr Key knows who hacked Whale Oil blogger Cameron
Slater's computer and produced the source material for Nicky Hager's
book Dirty Politics means the Prime Minister's office and home should
be searched by police investigating the matter, Green Party Co-leader
Russel Norman says.
A
police inquiry into the hacking of the emails saw police conduct a
lengthy search of Hager's Wellington home.
Dr
Norman this afternoon said: "'If this is the Prime Minister now
saying that he thinks he knows who Rawshark is the question for the
police is why aren't they raiding his house?
"The
police spent 10 hours going through Nicky Hager's house because Nicky
Hager supposedly knows who Rawshark is, well the Prime Minister is
now on the public record saying he knows who Rawshark is. I would
expect the police to be consistent and even handed and to raid the
Prime Minister's house and his office to find out who Mr Key thinks
Rawshark is."
Mr
Key did not divulge the name of the person to the biography's author,
senior Herald editorial writer John Roughan. Asked yesterday whether
the PM had referred the name to the police investigation into the
stolen emails, a spokeswoman for Mr Key said though he believed he
knew who the hacker was, "he cannot be certain".
Dr
Norman said that if Mr Key wanted to avoid a 10-hour search of his
home, "then maybe Mr Key should fess up and tell us who he
thinks Rawshark is".
Roughan's
book also quotes reports National Party campaign manager and Cabinet
Minister Steven Joyce saying Mr Key's former senior media adviser
Jason Ede stopped working for the National Party on the evening Dirty
Politics was released at Wellington's Unity Books -- more than five
weeks before the election.
That
conflicts with a National Party statement released after the election
which stated Mr Ede had resigned the day before the election.
Hager's
book claims Mr Ede was a central figure in a political dirty tricks
campaign run out of Mr Key's office.
Dr
Norman said Mr Key should have said during the election campaign that
Mr Ede was no longer working for the National Party.
"Mr
Key seems to spend a lot of time as the leader of the National Party,
not as the Prime Minister, so you'd think he would have known that Mr
Ede was no longer working for the National Party as has been revealed
today.
"If
New Zealanders during the election campaign had known that Mr Ede was
no longer working for the National Party they would have realised
that there was a lot of weight in the very serious allegations in
Nicky Hager's book, and that's why the National Party didn't want
anyone to know that Mr Ede was no longer working for them."
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