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“I take my hat off to them, they have done a fantastic job,” he said.
Nash’s comments came during a visit to the America’s Cup village on Auckland’s waterfront, but behind the scenes a bitter mediation process is underway between Team NZ and MBIE.
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Grant Dalton is chief executive of the team and of its event company ACE.
Team NZ claimed MBIE mishandled allegations made to it about how ACE and the team were managing government funding from MBIE, which has committed $40 million to event costs.
MBIE received confidential information early in 2020 from a whistleblower, later identified as ACE event sub-contractor Mayo and Calder, and commissioned a forensic audit without telling ACE the grounds.