A company belonging to a key official in Auckland mayor Wayne Brown’s office is in liquidation owing $570,000 in tax, with the mayor unaware.
Brown’s chief of staff Jaswant Sailendra Singh (Jazz) called in the liquidators on June 4, for his property development company Traxx Investments Limited.
The first report by liquidators Steven Knov and Kieran Jones, dated June 11, shows Traxx has no assets, and its sole creditor, listed as preferential is Inland Revenue with the sum of $569,739.
A spokesman for the mayor said in a statement provided to Newsroom at the weekend that Brown “has never heard of Traxx Investments nor has he received any advice about Jazz Singh’s involvement with this company.”
Singh told…