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posted by on Friday January 27 2017, @04:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-ancestral-hobbit-homeland dept.

During their investigation of the purchase of a large estate in New Zealand by Peter Thiel, Matt Nippert and Anne Gibson, reporters for The New Zealand Herald, noticed that certain processes required by the Overseas Investment Act had not been followed. The explanation: Peter Thiel is a NZ citizen and hence wasn't required to follow the procedures for an overseas investment.

If Thiel is so sure that Trump will deliver, why does he need a bolt hole and more importantly, citizenship in another country?

The New York Times adds:

One question being asked was why Mr. Thiel became a New Zealander in 2011. Close behind that was how it happened.

If you like New Zealand enough to want to become a citizen, the country's Internal Affairs Department noted on Wednesday, one requirement is "to have been physically in New Zealand for a minimum of 1,350 days in the five years preceding the citizenship application." Another requirement is that you "continue to reside" there after becoming a citizen.

Mr. Thiel, 49, does not appear to have done either.

[...] If Mr. Thiel was not a resident in New Zealand for the necessary amount of time, an exception must have been made. The government has not responded to questions about whether that happened and, if so, what the reason was.


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  • (Score: 2) by Whoever on Friday January 27 2017, @04:04AM

    by Whoever (4524) on Friday January 27 2017, @04:04AM (#459303) Journal

    Because "money". Film at 11.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @07:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @07:44PM (#459671)

    You missed the "tory government" part also.

    Self entitlement and thinking the rules don't apply to them (often then proving it) is a feature, not a bug...