Green MP suspended over alleged migrant exploitation
Stuff reports:
The Green Party has suspended one of its MPs, Darleen Tana, and appointed an independent lawyer to investigate her conduct after a Stuff investigation into allegations of migrant exploitation at a business owned by her husband.
The Greens suspended Tana on Thursday afternoon after Stuff put a series of questions to her about the allegations that the company, E-Bikes NZ, employed a worker who was in New Zealand on a visitor visa, and paid him in cash until he secured a work visa. …
Palma says he asked Tana to intercede and help him secure his lost wages and she refused. He supplied message chains showing Tana asking him to assist with her political campaign.
So the alleged exploited migrant asked Tana for his unpaid wages and she asked him to help her campaign!
A statement was supplied from Green leaders Marama Davidson and Chloe Swarbrick which said Tana had told the party on February 1 and then again on February 9 of complaints laid to the Employment Relations Authority, both of which included allegations against her personally.
But they said it was not until yesterday that they learned that “Ms Tana may have had some prior knowledge of the allegations”.
Did they not ask questions?
Davidson told RNZ on Friday morning that she stood by the the fact the MP was stood down from the small business portfolio, without sharing that information with the public.
Another secret suspension – first Ghahraman, and now Tana.
The key to note is her maiden speech was after the Greens knew about the migrant exploitation allegations.