Quote Originally Posted by kiora View Post
Daahhh!
" Assets like Scales and Helicopters NZ were let go for a song. They have since been resold by the lucky buyers for much more.

"The value of the assets today is something like $2.2b … at least $1b more than we sold them for."

So an orderly exit would have left NZ Inc's current account $1b better off. And it all hinged on that one grumpy exchange."
Yep it was handled PP!
Scales sold for around $34m and within a couple of years making $34m/year profit !
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opi...day+6+May+2019
Hindsight is a marvelously transparent way of looking at things. ( I didnt realise there was a view that he was a self confessed fraudster)