Lisa Hansen, also a practising barrister, lobbied the police and cabinet ministers to halt the vaccine programme, falsely claiming it had caused ‘many hundreds of deaths’.

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The chief gambling commissioner Lisa Hansen demanded an immediate halt to the country’s vaccination programme, citing wildly inaccurate claims about nanotechnology in Covid-19 jabs.

The Gambling Commission decides on casino licensing applications, and hears appeals against regulatory and licensing decisions made by the Department of Internal Affairs.

Hansen is also a lawyer for anti-vaccination groups Voices for Freedom and New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS).

In January, she wrote a letter to cabinet ministers and medicines regulator Medsafe, claiming to offer “evidence” that vials of the Pfizer vaccine contained “nano-scale advanced technology”. The claims were emphatically debunked by leading scientists, including nanotechnologist Michelle Dickinson.

Hansen said she was engaged by NZDSOS, and enclosed photographs meant to support claims of nanotechnology in the vaccine. Scientists have questioned if the images are genuine.

The letter was based on inaccurate claims made by Wellington GP Matthew Shelton who believes the vaccine contains microscopic, self-assembling electronic components. He repeated the false claims in a speech made during the occupation of parliament grounds in February – and the disinformation was widely shared on social...

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