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Exception for Trump-supporting billionaire's NZ citizenship never repeated

Publish Date
Thu, 16 Mar 2017, 7:56AM

Exception for Trump-supporting billionaire's NZ citizenship never repeated

Publish Date
Thu, 16 Mar 2017, 7:56AM

The circumstances of Trump-supporting billionaire Peter Thiel's New Zealand citizenship were so exceptional they have not been repeated.

Thiel was made a Kiwi by then-Internal Affairs Minister Nathan Guy in June 2011 under a rarely-used "exceptional circumstances" clause of the Citizenship Act, allowing the technology investor and libertarian to sidestep requirements to have lived - and intend to live - in New Zealand. 

NZ Herald Business Investigations editor Matt Nippert, who broke the story, joined Rachel Smalley this morning to discuss the revelations. 

LISTEN TO NIPPERT'S FULL INTERVIEW ABOVE 

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