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SFO lay charges in alleged $15M fraud
Thursday, 9 December 2010, 12:41 pm | Serious Fraud Office
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) today laid 87 charges under the Crimes Act against Michael John Bradley and Jacqueline Lyndsay Bradley, the co-directors of B’On Financial Services Ltd (B’On), for what is alleged to be the defrauding of approximately ... More >>
3 years imprisonment for defrauding finance company of $3.7m
Friday, 3 December 2010, 2:42 pm | Serious Fraud Office
Alan Edwards Wycherley was sentenced in the Wellington District Court on 2 December 2010 to three years imprisonment and ordered to pay $30,000. The sentence resulted from a conviction on one charge of conspiracy to use documents to defraud laid by ... More >>
Guilty plea in relation to $2million SFO fraud charges
Thursday, 2 December 2010, 5:07 pm | Serious Fraud Office
Ian Victor Petersen, a 61 year old man from Waikanae, pleaded guilty today in the Porirua District Court to 13 counts of theft by a person required to account, 19 counts of theft by person in special relationship, one count of using a document ... More >>
3 years 8 months sentence in Green Acres franchise fraud
Monday, 29 November 2010, 5:56 pm | Serious Fraud Office
Keith Lapham was today sentenced to three years and eight months imprisonment following his guilty plea in respect of three charges of obtaining by deception brought by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). More >>
SFO confirms Hanover Finance investigation
Monday, 29 November 2010, 10:45 am | Serious Fraud Office
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) today confirmed that it had been conducting an investigation into the affairs of Hanover Finance Limited for past 3 months. More >>
Second guilty plea in Five Star Finance case
Friday, 26 November 2010, 4:35 pm | Serious Fraud Office
A second Five Star Finance defendant has plead guilty to charges laid by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). Nicholas George Kirk, a former director of Five Star Consumer Finance Limited (Five Star) today pleaded guilty to charges of theft by a person ... More >>
Insufficient evidence to progress SFO investigation into VTL
Friday, 26 November 2010, 4:34 pm | Serious Fraud Office
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) today announced that it had been unable to secure sufficient evidence to enable it to lay charges against the Vending Technologies Limited (VTL) Group directors or management, and had closed the investigation. More >>
Custodial sentence for National Finance defendant
Friday, 26 November 2010, 12:42 pm | Serious Fraud Office
John Gray, the former Accountant for National Finance 2000 Limited (National Finance) was today sentenced to a term of 18 months imprisonment. Mr Gray has indicated that he will appeal the decision not to grant him home detention in relation to his sentence, ... More >>
SFO lays corruption charges in ACC investigation
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 11:48 am | Serious Fraud Office
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) today announced that it had laid eight charges against Malcolm David Mason and another individual (whose name is suppressed), relating to a series of corrupt property transaction involving the Accident Compensation Corporation ... More >>
SFO lays charges in North Shore City Council corruption case
Monday, 22 November 2010, 2:57 pm | Serious Fraud Office
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced today that it had laid over 300 charges against Hemant Kumar Maharaj, 57, and Suresh Din, 56, both of Auckland. More >>
SFO secures conviction on $13M fraud charges
Thursday, 11 November 2010, 1:56 pm | Serious Fraud Office
Raghu Srinivas Aryasomayajula, was today found guilty in the District Court at Auckland of two charges of Obtaining by Deception. More >>
Guilty plea on SFO $1.6m fraud charges
Tuesday, 9 November 2010, 4:04 pm | Serious Fraud Office
Peter Edward Hynes today pleaded guilty in the Christchurch District Court to 40 charges laid by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) totalling $1.6M. More >>
Dominion Finance investigation launched
Thursday, 28 October 2010, 4:55 pm | Serious Fraud Office
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) today announced that it had launched an investigation into a number of related party transactions undertaken by Dominion Finance Group Limited and North South Finance Limited prior to their collapse in 2008. More >>
Insufficient evidence in Blue Chip investigation
Thursday, 28 October 2010, 4:46 pm | Serious Fraud Office
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) today announced it had completed its investigations into the Blue Chip group of companies and, while investigations were continuing in relation to one of its South Island franchises, it did not intend to lay charges ... More >>
Five Star Finance defendant pleads guilty to SFO
Wednesday, 27 October 2010, 12:27 pm | Serious Fraud Office
Marcus Arthur MacDonald, a former director of Five Star Consumer Finance Limited (“Five Star”) has today pleaded guilty in the District Court in Auckland to charges of theft by a person in a special relationship, which related to misuse of Five Star ... More >>
SFO investigating Natural Dairy land transactions
Thursday, 21 October 2010, 5:25 pm | Serious Fraud Office
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) today confirmed that, acting on information received from the Overseas Investment Office (OIO), it had commenced an investigation into transactions between Natural Dairy (NZ) Holdings Ltd (Natural Dairy) and UBNZ Trustee ... More >>
Defendant Pleads Guilty in SFO $1.4M Fraud
Thursday, 21 October 2010, 4:37 pm | Serious Fraud Office
Martyn Tewsley Scott, a 51 year old from Meadowbank, Auckland, today appeared in Auckland District Court and pleaded guilty to seven representative charges of accessing a computer for dishonest purpose, laid by the SFO in September this year. More >>
SFO executes search warrants in WSD Group
Thursday, 21 October 2010, 2:42 pm | Serious Fraud Office
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) today announced that it had opened an investigation into the affairs of the WSD group of companies, executing search warrants at WSD Group’s premises at 475 Mount Eden Road and a private residence in Glendowie earlier ... More >>
SFO to investigate South Canterbury Finance
Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 9:52 am | Serious Fraud Office
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) today announced that it had launched an investigation into South Canterbury Finance (SCF). More >>
National Finance defendant pleads guilty to SFO ch
Friday, 8 October 2010, 4:27 pm | Serious Fraud Office
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) today said it was pleased that John Gray, the former Accountant for National Finance 2000 Limited (“National Finance”) had pleaded guilty in the District Court in Auckland to theft by a person in a special relationship, ... More >>
