Prime Minister John Key says he has no knowledge of whether Australian officials paid people-smugglers to turn around a boat of asylum seekers who were trying to reach New Zealand.
The asylum seekers have claimed that crew members on the boat were paid by Australian border patrol officials to turn the boat back to Indonesia. After it was turned around by Australian border patrol, it crashed onto a reef on a remote island in West Papua.
The Prime Minister said the crew and the boat were capable of making it from Indonesia to New Zealand.
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