The informant asked your old mate if this showed a lack of trust by the dairy co-op’s management and board in its own directors, or was it due to an incident Fonterra had experienced with a former – but now current – board member?
Of course, such individual identification of the board papers would make it very easy to trace the source of a leak if Fonterra board information happened to end up in wrong hands – such as the media, rivals – or even yours truly!
Or would it?