FMA invites Sheppard to share Hanover report
The failed finance company has been back in the headlines over recent weeks after owners Eric Watson and Mark Hotchin settled their defamation case against Bruce Sheppard for a six-figure sum reported to be the biggest defamation payout from an individual in New Zealand history.
At issue were comments he made in television and radio interviews in 2009.
Just over a week ago, a joint statement was issued by Hotchin, Watson and Sheppard, in which Sheppard acknowledged that his statements might wrongly have implied that Hotchin and Watson were involved in criminal or fraudulent transactions.
"Mr Sheppard acknowledges that any such inference, which was not intended, was incorrect and remains incorrect at the date of this statement and he retracts any such inference and regrets it,” the statement said.
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