America's Cup team 'condemns' MBIE conduct

America's Cup team 'condemns' MBIE conduct
Pattrick Smellie
Relations between the organisers of The America’s Cup and the government agencies responsible for the event have plummeted to a new low, with the organisers issuing a “public condemnation” of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.A four-paragraph statement accusing MBIE of “moves to conceal their totally inappropriate behaviour through this protracted contractual process” was accompanied by the public release of a “suite of letters addressed to MBIE and Ministers which call MBIE to account for t...

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