22 June 2023
By email to: [FYI request #20166 email]
Attention: Darren Edward
Request for information about investigations into Baycorp (CON0011696)
We refer to your email to the Serious Fraud Office (the
SFO) dated 24 May 2023, in which
you requested the following information:
“
I would like to know if Baycorp has ever been investigated for serious fraud.”
We have considered your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (
OIA) and the
Serious Fraud Office Act 1990 (
SFO Act).
Decision
We have interpreted your request as asking for any information relating to an SFO
investigation of Baycorp for serious fraud offending.
We note that, although more specific in nature, this request is essentially a repeat of your
request of 7 August 2022, when you asked whether any debt col ections agencies had
ever been investigated by the SFO.
We reiterate our response of 2 September 2022 and confirm that the SFO does not hold
the information requested. Accordingly, we refuse your request on the grounds that the
requested information does not exist, pursuant to s 18(e) of the OIA.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision.
Information about how to make a complaint is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.
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Please note that it is our policy to proactively release our responses to official information
requests where there is a broader public interest. Our response to your request may be
published at sfo.govt.nz, with any personal information removed.
Yours sincerely
Kylie Cooper
Acting General Counsel
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