Dover Samuels

Since Rick barker is in the news again it is timely to re-visit the Bill Liu case.

For those not familiar with interesting story Bill Liu is also known as Yong Ming Yan, Yang Liu and William Yan. He duped numerous MPs into supporting his application for NZ Citizenship including Dover Samuels, Rick Barker, Shane Jones, Chris Carter and Pansy Wong.

He was arrested in June 2009 and is currently facing 12 charges relating to false declarations on his immigration papers, having false passports and using deception to gain citizenship.

Via the Whaleoil tipline some more interesting information has come to light. But first a little reminder of how all those Labour MPs are linked to Bill Liu.

He was granted citizenship in a VIP ceremony in Wellington last year after lobbying from former Labour MP Dover Samuels, who regards him as a close friend.

Rick Barker, the then Internal Affairs Minister charged with approving citizenship applications, was also on the list of politicians who knew Yan. Because of this, he passed the file to another minister, Shane Jones.

Mr Jones overruled Internal Affairs advice that Liu – now Yan – did not meet character requirements and granted him citizenship.

These guys aren’t talking and the reason why they aren’t talking is that contrary to the sanitised official and labour Party that Bill Liu donated $5000 to Labour the real sums involved are far greater than that. Along with further information obtained the via the tipline may have revealed the real reason behind the pathological pursuit of a New Zealand passport.

Bill Liu was essentially trapped in New Zealand after Chinese officials canceled his travel documents, but like most Chinese businessmen based out of Hong Kong they have an official wife and a mainland mistress. the mainland mistress though can’t travel so there is trade in obtaining passports for themselves, but more importantly for their Mainland Chinese mistresses so they can travel with them.

As Investigate magazine at the time showed, Bill Liu was a man without an home and so he set about trying and ultimately succeeding in buying a New Zealand passport. The problem lies though with the sums involved and the heavy involvement of many Labour MPs and Shane Te Pou, a Labour party activist.

From TGIF we learn that Shane Te Pou, another person who also uses another name, Shane Phillips;

Tonight, TGIF Edition can also reveal that one of Yongming’s former associates in this country – Shane Phillips – was a Labour Party campaign manager, and his brother Daniel Phillips works in the office of Associate Immigration Minister Shane Jones – the man who gave ‘Bill Liu’ citizenship against the recommendations of officials who’d investigated his background.

All the information to date suggests that Shane Te Pou was the facilitator of Bill Liu’s approach to obtaining a New Zealand passport. He was also the bagman collecting the money for the Labour Party. Now this is where it gets real interesting and starts causing real problems for Dover Samuels, Chris Carter and in particular for Rick Barker and definitely for Shane Jones.

My informant tells me that the sums involved are far greater than a couple of donations of $5000 to various MP’s and in fact total around around $500,000 spread out over several years and laundered to the Labour Party via Shane Te Pou.

My informant also very specific about several locations and meeting including a birthday party where Mr Liu got very agitated about how much money he had paid over and why hadn’t his applications been approved yet. All of these agitated meetings and demands were performed in front of numerous witnesses.

Rick Barker was one of the first to sniff a rat but not before he had stayed several times in Bill Liu’s luxury Metropolis apartment. Barker at the time was the Minister of Internal Affairs and he was sticking with his officials and the Immigration Minister’s offical decisions that Bill Liu was a significant risk. Helen Clark changed the game first though with a ministerial shuffle.

Shane Jones was now the key player being the Associate Immigration Minister and it was him that approved Bill Liu’s passport and NZ Citizenship.

There is supposed to be an inquiry into all this through immigration but we are yet to hear th results of that. But a second informant has told me that $500,000 is quite cheap for the trade in passports and though Bill Liu thought he had paid quite enough for his passport the greedy little piggies at the Labour party were playing him. That is when the argument in front of many witnesses occured with Liu demanding his passport pronto.

My second informant tells me for example that St Kitts in the Caribbean sells passports for much more, especially for rich Hong Kong Chinese trying to also get one for the mainland mistress.

St Kitts offers what they call economic citizenship, essentially dual citizenship but at a price far higher than the cheapskates at the Labour Party were trying to sell passports to wanted international money laundering criminals.

The Economic Citizenship Programme for St. Kitts and Nevis was established in 1984 and provides the following benefits :-
•    Citizenship for life, for applicant and all eligible family members.
•    Dual Citizenship is permitted, without the requirement to notify the applicants home country, and without any need for the applicant to reside in St. Kitts/Nevis.
•    Passports will be issued to the applicant an all eligible family members, and may be easily renewed.
•    Visa-Free Travel to approximately 80 countries including :- Austria, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Greece, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and most British commonwealth countries. When a visa is required, they are also relatively easy to obtain.
•    Full Residency Status and the right to work in St. Kitts/Nevis
•    Tax Free Status on foreign income, capital gains, gift, wealth and inheritance tax
Requirements
An application requires a non-refundable cash payment of US$35,000 for a single applicant plus US$15,000 for each dependent, plus a US$2,000 fee for a background check on any person included in the application, who is over 18 years of age.
In addition to the above fees are the associated legal fees which will vary depending on the number of persons included in the application, but are usually in the region of US$15,000.
Additionally, the applicant must invest a minimum of US$350,000 in government designated real estate, among which there are some excellent real estate developments. Please note that the investment required was increased by the government from the old level of US$250,000 in late 2006.  The total financial cost of economic citizenship for a single person in St. Kitts is therefore approx US$400,000.

So as you can see the $500,000 that Bill Liu had coughed to Labour was far cheaper than the other favoured passport of the rich and famous Chinese looking for a passport for their mainland mistresses.

This all makes the case of Bill Liu very, very interesting. Chasing a Kiwi passports so he can travel and probably also trying to get one for his mainland mistress, on the run from the Chinese government for money laundering a at the same time over 4 years coughing via Shane Te Pou around $500,000 to the Labour Party.

There are many, many questions that remain unanswered after all this time and now with Rick Barker in trouble again I think it is time that He and Shane Jones and  Chris Carter start telling the truth for just once in their miserable corrupt little lives.

1. How big is the ACC Tail?
2. Is this where they hid the vast numbers of unemployed that disappeared?
3. Why hasn’t the board been sacked?
4. Why is Mike Williams still in his jobs?
5. Why do we have to wait until February 8 2009 to finally stop paying for Winston Raymond peters, 63, unemployed of no fixed abode?
6. Why did Winston have so much trouble finding the overhead locker in the plane the other day?
7. Was it because it was out of reach?
8. How does Winston get about now Tommy isn’t there to carry his bags and put things in the overhead locker for the little shortarse?
9. Has he finally stopped wearing that awful wig?

NZ First plan to sell Kiwibank under fire – New Zealand First leader Winston Peters’ plan to sell Kiwibank is “erratic and confusing” and would risk destroying the bank, Progressives leader Jim Anderton says. Mr Peters yesterday put forward a radical proposal to float shares… [NZ Herald Politics]

The Labour First Axis has come under attack from within its own ranks today after the Greens and Jim Anderton attacked Winston’s flip flop over kiwibank.

Just a few short weeks ago Winston Raymond peters, 63, List MP of no fixed abode and proven liar was seen front and centre signing a pledge not to sell Kiwibank and today he has resiled from that by suggesting that Kiwibank be listed and shares sold to the public.

The internecine warfare of the Axis has now broken into public view and these people want us to trust them?

Laywer called over TV stoush – A television stoush between New Zealand First leader Winston Peters and a National Party insider got so heated filming was stopped and the show’s lawyer called in. Right-wing commentator Matthew Hooton called Peters a “f***ing… [NZ Herald Politics]

It seems that Winston Raymond peters, 63, List MP of no fixed abode and proven liar is now getting to write Herald articles. I say that because right at the bottom of the piece in the HoS is a quote from a NZ First staffer about the show being the worst thing he has ever seen. He wasn’t even there so to make such a comment suggests that there are tapes of the stoush being sent about the place.

Hooton gives a somewhat more sanitised version of event on his blog. At least there we know that it is actually Hooton that writes the blog posts, not some lickspittle called Frank.

Matthew feels guilty about calling WRP, 63 LMPONFAAPL a “fucking cunt” when most other people haven’t been able to. Matthew shouldn’t feel guilty and if the VRWC awarded medals for meritorius conduct under fire then he would be the first recipient.

Hopefully on Tuesday when the blogmobile arrives in Tauranga we will be able to capture on film someone else calling Winston a fucking, lying, corrupt, cunt.

She took her time but we have finally got some answers to Rodney’s questions about Winston’s junket to the money laundering capital of the world Las Vegas.

Question: What was the Minister’s itinerary and what was the cost broken down by flights and accommodation and other expenses for his trip to Europe in April and May last year for the Anzac Day commemorations and European Union Business as described in the Herald on Sunday 14 September 2008 and what were the places visited each day?

Minister: Rt Hon Helen Clark

Date Lodged:15/09/2008

Answer Text: An itinerary for the travel is attached. Airfares for the Minister and accompanying party were $57,357 and other costs, including accommodation, were $36,656.70.

Question: Did the Minister pay directly for his flight from Berlin to Las Vegas for the Oscar de la Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather fight and then to return to his official itinerary as described in the Herald on Sunday 14 September 2008 or did he reimburse either Ministerial Travel or Foreign Affairs; if so, when was the reimbursement made?

Minister: Rt Hon Helen Clark

Date Lodged:15/09/2008

Answer Text: I am advised that no reimbursement was made to Ministerial Services nor the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, as neither agency paid for the flights referred to.

Oh dear, but Winston has said to reporters that he repaid it, looks like another pork pie from Winston Raymond peters, 63, List MP of no fixed abode. Questions still remain over who actually did pay for his junket. We now know it wasn’t Winston.

Question: Did the Rt Hon Winston Peters upon appointment as a Minister out the worksheet of questions about financial interests as set out in clause 2.58(a) of the Cabinet Manual, and if not, why not?

Minister: Rt Hon Helen Clark

Date Lodged:03/09/2008

Answer Text: Mr Peters was appointed in October 2005. Following his appointment Mr Peters, like the other new Ministers, met with the former Secretary of the Cabinet to discuss his financial interests.

The worksheet referred to in paragraph 2.58(a) of the Cabinet Manual 2008 was developed following the establishment of the revised Ministers’ interests regime in December 2006. In accordance with the regime, all Ministers received the worksheet in June 2007 and May 2008. It was also provided on appointment to all Ministers appointed since the regime was established.

All Ministers then returned an acknowledgement form stating that they had considered their personal interests in light of their ministerial responsibilities, and had sought advice where they identified any potential conflict of interest or perceived conflict of interest.

Oh dear! Will the man ever stop lying.

I have been listening to parliament and just listened to the Speaker Margeret Wilson collude with Winston Raymond Peters, 63, List MP of no fixed abode to stop Rodney Hide asking perfectly legitimate questions about evidence that was presented to the Privileges Committee.

This appalling situation smacks of collusion and corruption of our highest court by the Labour First axis to shut down debate into the apparent corruption of that government.

To silence an MP from asking perfectly legitimate questions crushes any semblence of free speech in the one place it is supposed to be guaranteed.

This bodes ill for our parliament and for our democracy that such collusion can be allowed to stand.

Speaker Wilson has today plumbed new depths in our parliamentary democracy in her brazen bid to assist Helen Clark to cover up for the corruption of Winston Raymond peters, 63 List MP of no fixed abode. The murk and dirt smothering the Labour First axis is indeed getting deeper.

How far would Helen Clark go to defend Winston Raymond Peters, 63, List MP of no fixed abode?

Do you think she would go so far as to ask people to write letters to the Herald about it?

What about using professional spin doctors and the Labour equivalent of Crosby|Textor, political consultants Callingham and Edwards to write letters to the Herald?

How about her personal hagiographer?

What next, a letter from Dr Peter Davis?

Did you see Close up tonight?

Greg O’Connor was on discussing the 2004 report, “Project Equity” written on crime in Sth Auckland. Apparently they forecast the current crime wave there. O’Connor claims the report was both ignored and buried.

So on the same day we find out that Navy can’t sail, airforce fly or army fight we also find out that our domestic army, if you will, is also unabl to fight our domestic war against crime.

Helen Clark’s narcissistic war on New Zealanders has almost been completed. She has emasculated the Police, the Army, Navy and Air Force, neutered the media, silenced the opposition, corrupted the civil service and now she is poised at the stoke of her pen to take dictatorial powers all without a shot being fired.

In fact you could say she already has after tolerating the farce that is Winston Raymond peters, 63, List MP of no fixed abode and not seeking the confidence of the parliament after standing him down she has already assumed control without a mandate.

Her narcissism is out of control. We could be witnessing New Zeland’s first ever coup d’etat.

Spencer Trust financial records revealed – 3 News has been given an extract of the Spencer Trust’s financial records which show a $25,000 donation made by Sir Robert Jones did go to New Zealand first. [3 News Politics]

So a trustee of the Spencer Trust has shown some bank statements and they think this all gets Winston Raymond peters, 63, List MP of no fixed abode off the hook?

Wrong.

It dumps him even further in the crap because those donations in 2005 were never declared to the Electoral Commission in NZ First’s annual returns. Not ever have NZ First declared any donation from the Spencer Trust.

That means that they broke the law, but oh so conveniently they can’t be prosecuted because the time for that has expired.

Meanwhile WRP, 63, LMPONFA has shown to be a Class A hypocrite, whilst he and his party were in receipt of funds from large corporate backers he was passing a law to prevent such donations all the time squaeling in the parliament that his arty never recieved such terrible, tainted moneys. LIAR!