Winston Peters
New Zealand First Leader
Member of Parliament for Northland
28 JULY 2017
Fujixerox NZ’s Former Auditors, EY, Try to Muzzle NBR
New Zealand First is blasting Ernst & Young (EY), FujiXerox NZ’s former auditors, for its ham-fisted attempt at censoring NBR’s entry for the EY sponsored
Business Journalism Awards.
“It is rich of National to claim that New Zealand is ‘least corrupt,’ when EY, which does a lot of work for this
National-led government, has now turned censor,” says the Rt Hon Winston Peters, Leader of New Zealand First and Member
of Parliament for Northland.
“EY is throwing its sponsorship weight around over Karyn Scherer’s exposé on FujiXerox NZ. As they say, that goes to
character because EY seems to value business journalism, just so long as the lens isn’t turned on it or a former client.
“It’s also inept, almost as inept as an auditor who misses up to $500m of transactions that have all the appearance of
fraud.
“New Zealand First has referred a complaint about EY to Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand,” says Mr Peters.
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