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Saudi sheep deal: McCully cleared of sharp practice – but not of sloppy management

New Zealanders still need to know what all this intrigue and secrecy has actually achieved for the $8.7 million spent so far, let alone the extra $3 million which is still to be spent. 

Rob Hosking
Wed, 02 Nov 2016

Sloppy and secretive but not corrupt.

That is the best way of summarising Auditor-General Lyn Provost's report on Foreign Minister Murray McCully's handling of the Saudi sheep deal.

"I found no evidence that the arrangements entered into as part of the Saudi Arabia Food Security Partnership

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Rob Hosking
Wed, 02 Nov 2016
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Saudi sheep deal: McCully cleared of sharp practice – but not of sloppy management
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