Labour MP David Cunliffe made fresh claims about Argentine brothers Rafael and Federico Grozovsky. Photo / Mark Mitchell
Argentine investors who were approved to buy a farm in New Zealand were allegedly investigated for a pollution incident which later led to fatalities, Labour MP David Cunliffe says.
Speaking under Parliamentary privilege, Mr Cunliffe made fresh claims about Argentine brothers Rafael and Federico Grozovsky, who were given approval to
buy Onetai Station in Taranaki in 2014 for $6 million.
Mr Cunliffe claimed that the brothers were implicated in a toxic air pollution case at a sugar mill in 2007 that allegedly led to lung cancer and premature death among the victims.
The brothers' consent to buy Onetai Station is already being reviewed because of a separate incident, highlighted by Mr Cunliffe two weeks ago.
In a case which is ongoing, the two company directors were being investigated for a spill from a tannery which polluted a river in Buenos Aires in 2011.
