Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s chief of staff is being moved aside after a council inquiry found he should have alerted Brown and officials to his personal company going into liquidation owing IRD $560,000 in GST.
From Tuesday, Jazz Singh will move temporarily to project work in the council chief of staff’s office to continue some unfinished work.
Brown said: “It is disappointing to see this situation require him to step aside,” but acknowledged it was “the right thing to do under the circumstances”.
Newsroom revealed the liquidation and the council and Brown’s lack of awareness on July 21.
A week-long inquiry by the council’s chief executive Phil Wilson found Singh had declared his outside business interest…