New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters has welcomed the Serious Fraud Office’s decision to investigate further the ‘Magnum’ deals following the High Court decision last Friday:

“I welcome this decision by the Serious Fraud Office, but I am concerned at some of the comments by the Director Mr Bradshaw, since the High Court, the Appeal Court and the Privy Council have already indicated the law relating to this issue.

“For this reason I have today written to Mr Bradshaw, referring him to the appropriate documents (enclosed).

“In the interests of finally seeing justice done, I want to do all I can to help the Serious Fraud Office in its investigations, and will be cooperating in any way I can,” concluded Mr Peters.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>