Mitchell MarkHon MARK MITCHELL (National—Rodney): For my seven years in this Parliament this is the first week that I've seen the country truly become unified behind an issue.Kieran McAnulty: Behind Simon Bridges.Hon MARK MITCHELL: If the members opposite are going to make comments I'm quite happy to put them on the Hansard today. This is in relation to Karel Sroubek. When I say the country became unified I was shocked and surprised when I put out my first press release in relation to this with my colleague the Hon Michael Woodhouse. We had a huge response from the general public. We had retired immigration officers we had retired police officers that were involved in the case that were very familiar with the case and we had people that were very close to both court cases that this guy was involved with. Every single Kiwi that touched this case without exception said that they didn't accept the sob story that was put up about the fact that he was in danger if he returned to the Czech Republic. They thought that his integrity and his character was in serious question and we had a Parole Board finding recently saying that he is manifestly untruthful that he uses long-winded answers and that actually he's not safe to be returned to the community.So when we raised this issue and we came to the Minister of Immigration and we said How did you come to this decision?" this is the answer we got: "Nothing to see here. We'll not be coming in front of the New Zealand public. We'll not be explaining why we made this decision."Hon Nathan Guy: Yeah "Read between the lines." it was.Hon MARK MITCHELL: Then we had from the Prime Minister "Read between the lines." That was the response back to the country: "Read between the lines."There appear to be only three people in New Zealand—and maybe there's someone else in the Government; I would be very happy to hear from you if you support the decision that the immigration Minister has made—that accepted Karel Sroubek's explanation that he wasn't safe back in the Czech Republic. The three people were the judge that heard the hearing around him stealing someone's identity and a false passport to actually get into New Zealand and get his original visa and for some reason—we don't know why—he gave him a very very light sentence and gave him another chance. The only other two people that accept his story appear to be the Minister of Immigration and the Prime Minister. Every single person that has touched this case that has had anything to do with Karel Sroubek has not accepted his lies has said that he's been untruthful and has not accepted his story in terms of is he unsafe being returned to the Czech Republic. Actually when he comes out of jail this is the first real chance that the Minister has had to deport him. He should just go back to the Czech Republic.I want to debunk one of the issues that it seems they've been trying to get up through the media and that is that he's some type of police informant—that he's somehow helping law enforcement agencies. I can tell you right now from my own experience in my own policing career—and before I went into the dog section I was involved in the undercover programme. I was trained in electronic monitoring. In fact my best friend that I went through Police College with ran the undercover programme in Auckland. I can tell you now that we would never in a million years as a country trade our New Zealand residency for any information that might be passed to assist an investigation. I can tell you right now and be 100 percent confident that this guy's never helped in any police investigation. He's never been an informant and so I want to debunk and put that rumour to bed right now.This is a guy that's been involved in criminal activity and criminal gangs in the Czech Republic. He's stolen an identity to get away from there because he has been committing crimes—and of course the police are after him. This is a world-class police service. It's not a Russian gulag third-country status; this is a country that's part of the OECD part of the EU and is a NATO country.They're wealthier than us. They've got a world-class justice system and police service. He stole an identity to get away because he is wanted by the police because he's committing crimes. He decided to come to New Zealand where he's become associated with gang members and he's embarked again on organised crime—importing drugs into this country. I don't know how long he's been doing that. It appears he's had a supply chain open for 10 years. He's been importing drugs from the Czech Republic. He's about to come out and can be deported and the Minister—and he still hasn't backed down although he's indicated now he's got new information. Of course he has—it was obvious. He was naive in his decision making. Mr Speaker thank you."