Nash cuts ties with migrant investor pitch

Nash cuts ties with migrant investor pitch
Stuart Nash had been warning Tribal Natural Healthcare its ideas were uninvestable without more work. (Image: NZME)
Pattrick Smellie
Former Labour Cabinet minister Stuart Nash has cut ties immediately with promoters of a manuka essential oils investment, who he says are misrepresenting his involvement in the scheme. “I have just dissociated myself from this completely,” he told BusinessDesk. “I don’t know whether they’re legitimate or not. They are using my name in a way that is disingenuous.”Trade Minister Todd McClay pulled Nash from a promotional trip to the United States with the Immigration Minister Erica Stanford shortly after B...

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