Gareth Vaughan

Yeah, yeah, in a relatively small corner of the 10th floor from what I understand as well.

And so, you know, there are documents in the leak that are in Russian.

There are documents in Spanish.

There was one I came across that was actually in both Russian and Spanish.

So, I mean, obviously I can look at Google Translate and I can sort of, but I, you know, and there's names of oligarchs from Belarus and things like this.

There's companies in Cyprus and other places.

There's no way I can put all this together myself.

So, you know, I guess my options were, you know, one, okay, I'm like, you know, I've got a lot on.

We described WorldClear in the first story as a tiny New Zealand company.

Well, I mean, interest.co.nz is even smaller than WorldClear.

So there's only sort of, you know, half a dozen or so of us who are sort of the journalist side of the business, you know, covering the financial news in New Zealand.

Yeah, well, I mean, this was the thing.

I guess I just sort of, I waited up over a period of a few months, actually, because one of the things going on at the time was the Commerce Commission's market study into banking competition.

And then the government also launched a select committee inquiry into banking competition.

Now, that's like an issue that I've written about for donkey's ears and was a real core issue for us.

So that was dominating my time, editing my team's stories.

That was dominating my time.

So I kind of did just basically procrastinate.

And then I thought, well, I've kind of got two options.

One, I can write a story and I can say, you know, person A, B and C and company, you know, E, F and G, they were world clear customers.