Robertson blasts Treasury over hasty police action on Budget leak

Robertson blasts Treasury over hasty police action on Budget leak
Pattrick Smellie
By Pattrick Smellie May 30 (BusinessDesk) - Outgoing Treasury secretary Gabriel Makhlouf appears to be on thin ice with his boss, Finance Minister Grant Robertson. The finance minister says he is "very disappointed" both by the department's poor cyber-security and its hasty referral of Budget leaks that it claimed were "hacking" to the police. His statement follows two days of political turmoil caused by the National Party discovering Budget secrets on a supposedly secure part of the Treasury website and an early morning press statemen...

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