WELLINGTON: New Zealand passports are not for sale, Prime Minister Bill English said Thursday, after it emerged US tech titan Peter Thiel gained citizenship in the South Pacific nation despite not meeting official criteria.
The dispute over Thiel’s citizenship follows reports that mega-wealthy Americans are eyeing the remote South Pacific nation as a “bolthole” should Donald Trump’s presidency go disastrously wrong.
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