I’ve put in several OIA requests over the last few months. Today I received from the University of Otago the one that I submitted to Michael Baker. This guy;
Well on the 1st October 2020 Michael received $4,951,981 NZD (3,389,260 USD) for “SYMBIOTIC: Integrated prevention of infectious diseases and long-term conditions” from the Health Research Council of NZ (HRC). This goes with the $497,056 NZD he received from the HRC on 1st May 2020 for “COVID-19 Pandemic in Aotearoa NZ: Impact, Inequalities & Improving our response” and the $682,000 that he received in various grants from the Foundation Trust University of Otago, Ministry of Health and the GAMA foundation since February 2020. Yes he’s the 6 million dollar (NZD) man.
The last of these is a NZ outfit supposedly, but strangely shared its name with the Finseca (formerly GAMA) foundation in the United States until recently.
Share widely please, this is an assault on us all here in New Zealand.
Also I might note that if Finseca added Mossack before their name, it would be pretty familiar to those of us who followed the Panama Papers a few years ago. Off topic a little though.
I have added the letter from Otago University in response to my Official Information Act (OIA) request