Expensive exoneration: Ministry settles with former critical projects director who left on gardening leave

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Expensive exoneration: Ministry settles with former critical projects director who left on gardening leave

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Vanessa Weenink

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Ministry of Health auditors, a consultancy and a legal firm all looked into ministry procurement matters

The Ministry of Health spent thousands of dollars on a procurement probe amid allegations involving one of its directors. But those allegations fizzled, as Oliver Lewis reports

A top Ministry of Health executive who was placed on gardening leave, and ultimately left the ministry under a cloud, has been exonerated. New Zealand