Events manager Grant Calder, who turned whistleblower to raise concerns about how public funds were used for the last America’s Cup, has died.
He was 41.
Calder’s cause of death has not been released but has been referred to a coroner, a coronial spokeswoman said. The death is yet to be assigned to a coroner to investigate.
His family declined to comment via an intermediary.
Calder was a principal of event company Mayo & Calder, along with co-director Tom Mayo.
The pair spoke out two years ago after turning Government whistleblowers.
Their claims included mounting safety risks and alleged issues with the way taxpayer money was being spent in the lead-up to the 36th America’s Cup in Auckland, which Mayo and Calder was contracted to help deliver.
They were described as “spies” by Team New Zealand boss Grant Dalton, who suggested they had leaked confidential information to other teams.
Their accusations included claiming Dalton operated Team New Zealand and America’s Cup Event (ACE) as a “dictatorship”, that there was not a single board meeting in the first 18 months of ACE and that this made it hard to raise concerns the budget would be inadequate for on-water safety and for security around a Cup village on the Auckland waterfront.
ACE took legal action against the company, suing them for breach of confidence and claiming they were responsible for a $2.8m payment into a Hungarian bank account, after scammers impersonating a European contractor sent Dalton an invoice.
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