DEFINITE Dismissal – Liam Clinton, Detective Senior Sergeant
Clinton’s involvement began on 30 July 2021, when he promised “I‘ll be sending the info over (to Europol) next week”.
Having not responded to any of my 9 follow-up emails, I started to try to escalate the matter on 16 August. Despite Clinton being cced into the 9 escalated emails – he still (as per everybody else) did not respond!, I did not hear from Clinton until 29 September when he claimed the delay had been caused by “…the Liaison Officer (LO) being on an out-of-country operation & had leave on his return”! I complained to Clinton “The European side of this process is initially Literally reliant on Just 1 person. I am Shocked the LO’s Manager did Not manage their New work in their 2 months absence! The LO would have had Some time during the out-of-country operation to read & progress their emails! Criminals doN’t wait for law enforcement to come back from leave/do some very basic work management!! I know I am ‘shooting the messenger’”.
Clinton did not have the integrity to respond to me, leaving me with the belief the 2 months delay was the fault of Police’s LO. I subsequently discovered, via an OIA request, the 2 months delay was Clinton’s fault – he ‘sat’ on my report for 2 months, not sending it to LO & allowing them to progress it within Europol via remote internet access during downtime on their out-of-country operation!
I stated to Clinton “As you know, I engineered this week the opportunity for Europol to anonymously talk with the ‘big mouth, small brain’ of the 2 main criminals. Before he withdraws the offer/I ‘lose him’, Europol anonymously talking with him next week would be Great”. Clinton did make the LO aware of this potentially great investigation opportunity –though did not stress its limited time availability importance!
Clinton sent my report to LO on 29 September & a follow-up email on 19 October. Despite not receiving a response, he then forever gave up! No further follow-up emails, no phone calls, no escalation. The days/weeks I had spent collating my 89 pages report & 8.5 months I had spent persisting with Police were ‘respected’ by Clinton with just 2 passive emails! (PNHQ should address non-responsive LO)
The very last email I received from Clinton was on 14 October 2021 – “Nothing back yet (from the Europol Financial & Economic Crime Centre) Andrew. I’ll see if our LO can get an ETA on a response”. Without any explanation or pre-warning, I was never again to hear about anything from Clinton! Given the following events, with the benefit of hindsight, Clinton developed a super stubborn personal vendetta against me within just 2.5 months!
Again, nobody responded to my 7 escalated emails all cced to Clinton! On 30 November 2021, informed Clinton (& Hamlyn) I had engineered an opportunity for Europol to anonymously talk with the “Managing Director” criminal. “As you know, we previously missed the opportunity for Europol to anonymously talk with (redacted). Let’s Not miss a ‘second bite at the cherry’!! There’s only so much ‘investigator’ Flanagan can do”. Clinton (& Hamlyn) did not make LO aware of this potentially great investigation opportunity!
On 17 December, I informed Clinton of a major development in the case & provided him with an updated report. Clinton did not make the LO aware of this major development! Also, on that date, I emailed Clinton a 2 pages letter of my suggestion to move forward my case with Interpol Wellington (IW). Clinton did not have the decency/professionalism to respond.
On 24 December, I emailed Clinton “Hope you have properly referred my case to Interpol Wgtn as I recommended way back in April!”. He (& others) ignored 7 follow-up emails.
On 1 March 2022, I informed Clinton “IMPORTANT. Sure hope Euro/Interpol have been All over this case since police went Silent on me mid October. Looks like evidence Deletion has Begun!! (redacted) has removed All investors’ access to the private information forum. As long ago as August, I informed you urgent action on (redacted) was warranted!” No response from Clinton.
(On 2 June, Police’s Ministerial Services informed me Europol were investigating my crime report. However, on 9 December, D Rose – Acting Director: International Service Group – informed me the June correspondence was “simply a human error” – Europol had not been investigating my crime report!)
For 6 months of 2022, Clinton let me falsely believe Europol were actually investigating my case! Because Clinton received at least a weekly email from me starting with “As this case is now an open Europol enquiry,…”, he knew I was living in false belief. However, he never corrected my false belief! Knowing how extremely passionate I was to see justice served with my case, this was cruel behavior on Clinton’s part! He let me excitedly live for 6 months believing Europol were investigating my case, knowing this was absolutely not reality! He did nothing to even ensure another PNHQ personnel corrected my false belief!
On 28 August, I informed Clinton (& others) “As just established whatsapp friendship with (redacted), this is third(!) opportunity I’ve provided Europol to Anonymously talk directly with the criminals – first 2 opportunities were missed because nothing was in place at your end”. Again, Clinton did not make the LO aware of this potentially great investigation opportunity!
On 29 August, I informed Clinton (& others) one of the main criminals “has sent me a spreadsheet of all 1,750 Investors’ email addresses”. Clinton did not make the LO aware of this potentially valuable resource!
On 14 September, I informed Clinton (and Dunn & Hamlyn) “YouTube disabled my channel. As you should know, channel contains several unlisted videos of great evidence (with most of the criminals effectively admitting their crimes!) should any law enforcement actually do some investigation into this fraud – those videos areN’t backed up elsewhere. I’ve been repeatedly trying to get channel reinstated but it’s Impossible for the Public to contact a human in YouTube. Surely, Police have contacts in YouTube. So, I would very much appreciate your assistance to utilise those contacts to get my channel reinstated for (what should be) Our benefit – so the evidence videos can be viewed again”. Every week since mid-September 2022, I reminded Clinton (and Dunn & Hamlyn) of that policing 101 level assistance request. Clinton has ignored all 70 of those policing 101 level assistance requests!
On 13 October, I informed Clinton (& others) of “IMPORTANT: Likely ‘Follow the Money’ Breakthrough” which probably escalated the $US16.37M fraud into an $US1.045B one! Clinton did not make the LO aware of this significant development! Since 13 October, Clinton (and Dunn & Hamlyn) ignored my 78(!) requests to update the LO with this significant case development.
On 27 October, I sent Clinton a “Time to bury the hacket :)” email. “…We’re run 99 metres of an 100 metres race – PLEASE take the last step 🙂 If Europol tell us they’re “not interested in the case” at least I can ‘contently die’ knowing I tried my very best but it wasn’t meant to be 🙂 … So, lets bury the hacket & get this SHIT case Done – let’s get it in the hands of the Only entity that were Ever going to do something about it – Europol. Clinton did not have the empathy, integrity or soul to respond!
On 9 December – after having to engage Ombudsman Office to get outstanding OIA Police responses – D Rose, Acting Director: International Service Group; wrote to me. I requested of Ministerial Services (MS) Rose’s direct email address – they responded Clinton had been appointed as the communication ‘hub’ between Me & Rose (in their ‘wisdom’, the guy who had refused to communicate with me for 14 months was appointed as the communicator!)
On 9 December, I sent – via Clinton – a 7 pages(!) letter to Rose stating “Because your letter is full of inaccuracies, I hope for your sake it was either written on your behalf by clinton or ‘spoon fed’ to you by clinton without you doing any/much due diligence!!”, extensively summarising Clinton’s corruption and serious misconduct & neglect of duty and stating “We are back to attached proposal I made to paul hamlyn on 21 April 2021. I also sent this formal proposal to clinton on 17 December 2021. Neither of them had decency/professionalism to respond!”.
On 15 February 2023, Steve Dunn confirmed Clinton never passed my letter onto Rose! On 5 April, Dunn confirmed Clinton never passed my letter onto Dunn! So, the ‘communication hub’ Clinton DELIBERATELY hid from his recent past & current Managers my extensive summary of his serious misconduct & neglect of duty!! Clinton is CORRUPT.
On 13 June, given Coster Office’s refusal to communicate with the Public, I directed an OIA request to Coster to make him aware of Clinton’s woeful behaviour. As I never received a response, left to assume Ministerial Services (MS) informed Clinton of the OIA request & he ‘buried’ it so Coster was not formally made aware of his corruption and serious misconduct & neglect of duty!
On 17 July, given no response to above OIA request, I OIA requested “paper trail copy of police’s management of the initial OIA request directed to Andrew Coster”. As I never received a response, left to assume MS again informed Clinton of this new OIA request & he again ‘buried’ it so Coster was not formally made aware of his corruption and serious misconduct & neglect of duty!
On 7 September, given no response to the above 2 OIA requests, I OIA requested “As the response to the below June 13 OIA request to Andrew Coster is nearly 2 months overdue, you have effectively refused that Very Simple request! So, as per sections 19&23 of the OIA Act 1982, I am requesting a written statement of: – the reason for its refusal – the grounds in support of that reason…”
As I never received a response, left to assume MS yet again informed Clinton of this new OIA request & he yet again ‘buried’ it so Coster was not formally made aware of his corruption and serious misconduct & neglect of duty.
On 1 February 2024, after reading “NZ & European Union (EU) signed Europol Agreement in June 2022… enable Police & Europol to rapidly exchange information to respond to serious crimes” , I “IMPORTANT & URGENT” requested Clinton (and Dunn, Hamlyn & Rusbatch) to notify Europol of above 13 October 2022 “IMPORTANT: Likely ‘Follow Money’ Breakthrough”. Despite 3 follow-up emails, no response. Clinton & ISG’s ‘rapid’ definition was “For 15 months & counting, let’s not update (a mere 15 minutes task) Europol with this significant case development”!
On 8 April, I requested Clinton (and Dunn, Hamlyn & Rusbatch) to notify Europol of a “MAJOR CASE DEVELOPMENT”. Despite a follow-up email, no response. On 22 April, I requested Clinton (and Dunn, Hamlyn & Rusbatch) to notify Europol of “IMPORTANT” continuing criminal activity. Despite 6 follow-up emails, no response.
Given the above facts, it is VERY CLEAR Clinton is a Disgrace to the badge who doesn’t belong in policing! It is VERY CLEAR he has ABSOLUTELY ZERO empathy, integrity & respect!! His ‘professionalism’ is at a 1 out of 100 level! Putting aside his corruption and serious misconduct & neglect of duty, Clinton is a soulless character. His refusal since mid-September 2022 to provide any assistance at a policing 101 level – with my YouTube channel – indicates a very vindictive person! He KNOWS evidence preservation is one of the most crucial elements of law enforcement. Yet, I can envisage him hoping I have forever lost those videos!
As Clinton has refused NUMEROUS opportunities to correct his wrongs/’get over himself’/’turn new leaf’, he is beyond hope. His ‘very wide cracks’ in NO way can be ‘papered over’. He needs psychological help to address his personal issues. Clinton HAS to be Dismissed.
DEFINITE Dismissal – Steve Dunn, Superintendent
Dunn’s involvement began at that start of 2023. Instead of correcting Clinton’s wrongs; he SHOCKINGLY double-downed on Clinton’s corruption and serious misconduct & neglect of duty! He tried to rewrite history, to portray Clinton’s behavior was fine. He pretended my totally justified October 2022 request to update Europol – because the fraud magnitude had probably increased from circa $US16M to $US1.045B – never occurred! He showed zero willingness to hold Clinton accountable in any way!
On 15 February, in response to my OIA request for copies of internal ISG emails about my case, Dunn lied about “legal professional privilege… emails refused involve lawyer in our Legal Section”. There was not any need for a Lawyer to be involved in my case. As I never heard from the Lawyer nor were they ever mentioned again by any PNHQ personnel, the purpose of this lie was to cover up yet more of ISG’s corruption and serious misconduct & neglect of duty!
On 7 March, replying to his OIA response of the same date, I emailed Dunn a 4 pages “Please stop with the charade clinton adequately managed this case!” letter reiterating:
– “Most importantly, continuing to debate blame/justification game is wasting yet more time – 17 months has been totally wasted doing so to date! You are illogically spending lot more time failing to try to defend the very incompetent clinton than it would take to correct his continued misconduct & neglect of duty! My main interest is action in the pursuit of justice! Please be a lot more productive by being solution orientated to actually pursue justice being served on the criminals”
– “As I have been repeatedly requesting of clinton since 14 September 2022, respond to “…Surely, Police have YouTube contacts. So, I would very much appreciate your assistance to utilize those contacts to get my channel reinstated for (what should be) Our benefit – so the evidence videos can be viewed again”
– “As I have been repeatedly requesting of clinton since 13 October 2022, use the “IMPORTANT: Likely ‘Follow the Money’ Breakthrough” as a perfect significant development opportunity to follow up Europol. Reallocate my case to somebody in your team who will put in a decent effort to get an actual response from Europol this time!”
– “Yet again, we are back to the enclosed proposal I made to paul hamlyn on 21 April 2021 & clinton on 17 December 2021. Neither of them had the decency/professionalism to respond!”
Despite repeating all these points in another 4 pages 6 April letter replying to another of his OIA responses, Dunn did not have the decency/professionalism to respond to either letter!
On 13 June, I OIA requested “Contact & identification details of who the head of the Interpol Wellington unit reports to. (Note, Not the unit head but who that person Reports to)”. On 11 July; Dunn responded with Clinton, Hamlyn & his names! I immediately responded to MS “I am requesting the INTERPOL person NOT, as dunn provided, the police people” & also requested “Identify who is responsible for the management of the interpol.wellington@police.govt.nz inbox”. Despite 11 follow-up emails, I never received an initial response!
On 19 June, given Coster Office’s refusal to communicate with Public, I directed an OIA request to Coster to make him aware of Dunn’s woeful case mismanagement. As I never received a response; assume MS informed Dunn of OIA request which he ‘buried’ so Coster was not formally made aware of his corruption, serious misconduct & neglect of duty!
On 17 July, given no response to above OIA request, I OIA requested “paper trail copy of police’s management of the initial OIA request directed to Andrew Coster”. As I never received a response; assume MS again informed Dunn of this new OIA request & he again ‘buried’ it so Coster was not formally made aware of his corruption, serious misconduct & neglect of duty!
As he is ‘another pea in ISG’s corrupt pod’, it is CLEAR Dunn is a Disgrace to the badge who does not belong in policing! Dunn SHOULD be dismissed.
DEFINITE Dismissal – Paul Hamlyn, Detective Inspector
On 19-21 April 2021, I emailed Hamlyn 3 times – including 2 pages letter of my suggestion to progress my case with Interpol Wellington (IW). Hamlyn was also extensively cced & directly addressed in my 2021 escalation efforts. Not once did Hamlyn have professionalism to respond.
On 14 December 2022, I emailed a 2 pages letter & my 89 pages report to interpol.wellington@police.govt.nz in the hope that mailbox was managed by IW – rather than PNHQ – personnel. There was no response to my 34 follow-up emails. On 15 December 2023, I finally received a response to my 11 July “Identify who is responsible for the management of this inbox” OIA request – “Interpol Wellington email address is used for internal police requests to Interpol. The mailbox is managed by P Hamlyn & L Clinton. All Interpol Wellington staff have access to & use this email daily.” So; Clinton, Dunn & Hamlyn had ignored another 35 totally justified assistance requests!
As he is ‘yet another pea in ISG’s corrupt pod’, it is CLEAR Hamlyn is a Disgrace to the badge who does not belong in policing! Hamlyn SHOULD be dismissed.
Important additional considerations include:
– As personally vindictive Clinton, Dunn & Hamlyn will be in contact with their Europol LO every fortnight about other cases; since October 2021, they have not used those numerous occasions to very simply follow-up my case!
– I have stated to every PNHQ personnel have been in contact with since 28 January 2021 “If Europol/Interpol Wellington option turns out to be genuinely/realistically not feasible; Police need to refer my report to their Dutch, English, Romanian & Spanish (where the criminals live) and Swedish (where the offending business is registered) counterparts”. None of them have even been willing to even discuss this totally justified & reasonable request – Clinton, Dunn & Hamlyn will talk with their counterparts in at least 1 of these countries every week!!
An example of ISG personnel’s petty personal vindictiveness:
– On 17 June 2024, I submitted an OIA request for copy of NZ & European Union (EU) Europol Agreement signed in June 2022 – received “expect response on or before 16 July” reply
– On 16 July, received “Police require an extension until 16 August to respond” email. I immediately responded “There is Zero need for a time extension – look forward to receiving it tomorrow”. Of course, no response from MS.
– On 26 July, I discovered Police posted agreement on their website in April 2024! Instead of immaturely mucking me about, as above, ISG should have professionally referred me to the relevant website section in the week starting 17 June – if they had, ‘end of story’/OIA request satisfactorily responded. It is bullshit ISG took 3 months – until 19 September – to make simplest of website referrals!
DEFINITE Dismissal – Mike Rusbatch, Assistant Commissioner
On 30 November 2023, emailed Rusbatch above 4 letter sections – requesting he follow through on my recommended disciplinary actions. Despite 10 follow-up emails, no response. A core component of Rusbatch’s position was the supervision of his subordinates, ensuring they perform at least a satisfactory level & addressing any sub-par performance – especially corruption and serious misconduct & neglect of duty. Rusbatch’s non-response confirms he had no interest in performing this core component of his position!
Given ISG’s deep rooted corruption & Rusbatch’s willingness to ignore very-simple-to-fix misbehavior (which has a significant consequence), I am sure a review of the Units under his command would reveal he ignored a lot of other (serious) misconduct & neglect of duty committed by his subordinates!
On 6 April 2025; I cced Clinton, Dunn, Hamlyn & Rusbatch into an email to Megan Winch which included “In May 2024, as attached, I Alone achieved my objective – a proper Europol referral.
– It took me just 3 hours to find out how to get my crime report to Europol, while it took police 9 months to maybe do the exact same thing. (To this day, nearly 5 years after lodging my crime report with police, I still do not have confirmation police’s Europol liaison officer actually passed on my report to Europol!)
– It took just 6 business days to receive Europol confirmation they had entered my crime report into their system. Nearly 60 months & counting later, I still do not have such confirmation from NZ police – I will never receive such confirmation”
Zero response from Clinton, Dunn, Hamlyn & Rusbatch! None of them even had the decency – let alone (as per Police’s supposed values) empathy, integrity, professionalism & respect – to apologise for their appalling incompetence/respond to me! They are devoid of a conscience!
(On 4 October 2025, discovered Rusbatch had retired on 19 September)
DEFINITE Dismissal – Chris Page, Detective Superintendent
On 29 April 2025, emailed Page above 4 letter sections – requesting he follow through on my recommended disciplinary actions. Despite 27 (last 18 marked “IMPORTANT & URGENT”) follow-up emails (through to 12 November), no response.
A core component of Page’s position is the supervision of his subordinates, ensuring they perform at least a satisfactory level & addressing any sub-par performance – especially corruption and serious misconduct & neglect of duty. Page’s non-response confirms he has no interest in performing this core component of his position!
Final Warning – Mike Pannett, Assistant Commissioner
On 29 May 2025, “IMPORTANT & URGENT” emailed Pannett above 4 letter sections – requesting he follow through on my recommended disciplinary actions. Despite 16 follow-up emails (through to 29 September), no response.
A core component of Pannett’s position is the supervision of his subordinates, ensuring they perform at least a satisfactory level & addressing any sub-par performance – especially corruption and serious misconduct & neglect of duty. Pannett’s non-response confirms he has no interest in performing this core component of his position!
On 3 October, discovered Pannett had applied for Deputy Commissioner role. Its position description states:
– accountabilities include:
• Protecting & enhancing culture, integrity & reputation of NZ Police
• Delivering on service performance and… managing risks
• Ensuring effectiveness & efficiency of relevant Police operations
• Demonstrating high quality leadership…
– immediate responsibilities of Deputy Commissioner involve helping to… lift operational performance & service delivery
– fit and proper test… considers whether candidate is trustworthy & person of integrity
– Throughout appointment process, candidates should be prepared to discuss any past or present matters… that could be relevant to their conduct, judgement or integrity. Transparency is expected – any failure to disclose relevant information may affect assessment of suitability & impact on ongoing employment
– Leadership that… exemplifies integrity, conduct & service to the community
– Leading through… continuing to drive performance
– Expertise… to… maximise performance
– Ability to… foster… continuous improvement
– Ability to… maintain high levels of public trust & confidence in Police
– Ability to improve organisational performance… & demonstrate value for money
– Ability to provide exceptional leadership to staff; exemplifying integrity, humanity & service to the community
– Deputy Commissioner of Police… demonstrates:
• Strong leadership… skills; displaying… a demonstrated sense of ethics in all decisions & actions
• An ability to… foster… continuous improvement
As the WORST ‘offenders’ in this performance complaint are under Pannett’s command and for 4+ months & counting he had repeatedly done absolutely nothing to address their Corruption and Serious Misconduct & Neglect of duty (or Even responded to me), Pannett is definitely NOT Deputy Commissioner ‘material’!
On 4 October, discovered Pannett was 1 of 4 candidates to be interviewed for the 2 Deputy Commissioner roles😡
On 5 October, emailed “VERY IMPORTANT (FOR YOU!) – Widespread PNHQ Serious Misconduct & Neglect of Duty. I see you applied for Deputy Commissioner role. Its position description states: (above information). YET, as below – since 29 May 2025, you have TOTALLY IGNORED my attached Significant complaint about Widespread pnhq Corruption and Serious Misconduct & Neglect of duty!! (For sake of trying to secure Deputy Commissioner position) I look forward to your Confirmation by 8 OCTOBER police are FINALLY starting to investigate my police performance complaint 🙂 ” Pannett. Despite 3 “URGENT” follow-up emails (through to 27 October), no response.
On 17 December, discovered Pannett had been appointed as Statutory Deputy Commissioner! “Police Commissioner Richard Chambers said Pannett was a ‘thoroughly decent’ person with determination & integrity”! So ‘decent’, ‘determined’ & with so much ‘integrity’; Pannett is in command of PNHQ’s probably most corrupt unit – International Services Group!
Pannett’s hypocrisy – “What’s something about policing that think the public doesn’t fully understand? … The extra distance our members go … for victims & to hold offenders to account. It’s a job
where we take pride in making a difference!” & “I come to work each
day because of the … fact what we do makes a difference” … while, again, being in command of PNHQ’s probably most corrupt unit – International Services Group!
This March 2021 research of Police personnel – which concluded values embodied in the Code of Conduct (professionalism, respect, integrity & empathy) were not seen as being modelled by the organization, particularly at a senior level – is still 100% valid 4.5+ years later!
Appreciate you sharing & signing my “Independent Commission of Inquiry into Tribal NZ Police Culture is Warranted” petition. Thanks in anticipation