On the Money: Eric Watson's addresses, 'challenging conditions', Building Nations and who scares Kirk Hope

On the Money: Eric Watson's addresses, 'challenging conditions', Building Nations and who scares Kirk Hope
Eric Watson is a man on the move in Ibiza. (Image: Getty)
Dileepa Fonseka
On the Money is our weekly newsletter of general frippery from the worlds of business and government. There was a time besieged businessman Eric Watson was an invisible man. Well, that’s probably how the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the New Zealand liquidators of the Cullen Group saw it after numerous failed attempts to serve him with court documents on the island of Ibiza in the Balearic Islands off the east coast of Spain.In late 2022 the SEC even resorted to seeking his whereabouts through advertisemen...

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