Where in the world is Neil Barnes?

Where in the world is Neil Barnes?
It's believed that Neil Barnes is in Texas. (Image: Facebook)
Oliver Lewis
Victoria Young
For more than a decade, Neil Barnes was chief executive of an innocuously named company, Investment Services Limited (ISL), that provided management services for three Nelson-based property companies.Through contracts with his company, Activa Consulting, Barnes also fulfilled the chief executive functions of the property entities – First NZ Properties, Superstore Properties and Spring Road Property – which between them own five commercial buildings on behalf of more than 400 shareholders.And then, in 2018, he was gone, not just from...

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