This story was originally produced by the New Hampshire Business Review. NHPR is republishing it in partnership with the Granite State News Collaborative .

A tightening vice of inquiries is pressuring the New Hampshire Department of Business and Economic Affairs (BEA) to explain what it knew — and whether it aided — a Chinese water bottling company’s purchase of commercial property in Nashua.

Two inquiries —one directed from Gov. Kelly Ayotte and one from three members of the Executive Council — seek answers from BEA Commissioner Taylor Caswell about the purchase of a 337,391-square-foot, single-story building on 23 acres at 80 Northwest Blvd. in Nashua by a subsidiary of Nongfu Spring, China’s largest water and beverage bottler.

A spokesman for the governor in a statement to NHB

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