[ddj] New Zealand List Followers

Wed May 9 08:51:13 UTC 2012

Hi Nate,

Well if I can help and do something in my spare time, let me know. Sometimes
having someone on the ground makes things a bit easier. I won't have a lot
of time immediately but could possibly squeeze some time out of my busy
schedule.

Personal banking records in NZ will be covered by the Privacy Act 1993 so it
would be difficult to acquire anything without breaking the law unless they
were released either officially or by the individual(s) concerned.

I believe The NZ Companies Office has an API to allow you to search the
company registrations and associated information (like Directors and
Shareholders). You probably already know that. It might be possible to do an
extract to create a more useful dataset though.

Cheers,

Innes

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thayer
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To: List about Data Driven Journalism and Open Data in Journalism.
Subject: Re: [ddj] New Zealand List Followers

Hi Innes:

I am from the US (although lived in Asia for 25 years) but I am working on a
story that involves New Zealand. It is exactly what good data journalism
works for: The use of NZ based paper front companies to hide real ownership
for the international transport of corrupt money arms drugs etc. Their are
hundreds of fake companies registered to a single Aukland address to ship
products rent airplanes, set up fake companies registered in other countries
for bank transfers etc. SP Trading is its name and it briefly hit the news
in December 2010 when an arms shipment was intercepted from North Korea to
Iran in Bangkok. I am trying to track real ownership. If you or anyone else
knows how to best mine company and bank records to trace the very
complicated web I would love to know.

Best

Nate Thayer

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Innes Fisher <innes at quantumdata.co.nz>
wrote:

Hi,

Anyone from New Zealand following this list?

Would be interested in finding out what is going on in NZ in Data Journalism
at present. 

Cheers, Innes

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