12 December 2014
Former South Canterbury Finance Limited (South Canterbury) Director and Lawyer Edward Oral Sullivan has been sentenced in the High Court at Timaru today to 12 months’ home detention and 400 hours of community work.
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26 November 2014
John David Milne (79) has been sentenced to eight years and one month of imprisonment today in the Christchurch District Court following a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) prosecution.
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16 October 2014
Grant Malcolm Herbert (62) has been sentenced in the Auckland District Court today to four years and six months’ imprisonment following a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) prosecution.
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14 October 2014
Verdicts have been handed down by the High Court at Timaru today by His Honour Justice Heath following the conclusion of the South Canterbury Finance Limited (South Canterbury) trial.
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06 October 2014
Former Dunedin lawyer, John David Milne (79) has today pleaded guilty in the Christchurch District Court to 34 Crimes Act charges laid by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO).
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30 September 2014
John Grant Fagan (54) has been sentenced in the Palmerston North District Court to three years and one month imprisonment following a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) prosecution.
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19 September 2014
James Stephen Burns (41) has been sentenced in the Wellington District Court today to seven months’ home detention for his part in an advertising invoice scam.
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11 September 2014
Grant Malcolm Herbert (62), the former owner and director of insurance broking firm Herbert Insurance Group Limited (HIG), has been found guilty of 17 Crimes Act charges and seven Secret Commissions Act charges following a jury trial in the Auckland District Court. He has been found not guilty of one Crimes Act charge and one Secret Commissions Act charge.
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02 September 2014
Two individuals have been charged in the Auckland District Court today with Crimes Act charges laid by the Serious Fraud Office for alleged fraud against Mighty River Power Limited relating to procurement for the Company’s Southdown power station.
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22 August 2014
Gregory Alan Arnott (51) and Mark James Whelan (41) have been sentenced in the Auckland District Court today following charges laid by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO).
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25 July 2014
James Stephen Burns (41) has pleaded guilty to Crimes Act charges following a major joint enforcement agency operation (Operation Edit) led by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO).
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04 July 2014
Lawyer, Hugh Edward Staples Hamilton (63), who was found guilty of fraud in relation to the collapse of Belgrave Finance Limited (Belgrave), has been sentenced at the Auckland High Court today to four years and nine months' imprisonment.
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01 July 2014
Mark James Whelan (41) pleaded guilty in the Auckland District Court today after giving evidence at his trial. The trial related to a second Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation against Mr Whelan.
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13 June 2014
Michelle Roberta Innes (59) has been sentenced today in the Auckland District Court to four years and nine months’ imprisonment.
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10 June 2014
An important contribution to New Zealand’s fight against corruption will be launched in Auckland today.
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10 June 2014
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has completed its investigation in relation to allegations of misuse of funds held by Te Pataka Ohanga Limited (TPO). The SFO’s investigation did not disclose any criminal offending and the SFO will not be taking any further action.
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09 June 2014
Gregory Alan Arnott has entered guilty pleas in the Auckland District Court to 10 Crimes Act charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO).
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29 May 2014
A former Managing Director and a former General Manager from the retail gas industry have been sentenced in the Wellington District Court today in relation to Crimes Act charges laid by the Serious Fraud Office.
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16 May 2014
Hugh Edward Staples Hamilton (62) has been found guilty at the Auckland High Court today of 14 charges arising out of the collapse of Belgrave Finance Limited (Belgrave Finance). The charges were brought in a joint prosecution by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the Financial Markets Authority (FMA).
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05 May 2014
Jimmy Ming Miu (47) was sentenced in the Auckland District Court today to three years and three months’ imprisonment following a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) prosecution.
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17 April 2014
Glenn William Cooper (39) was sentenced to 19 months’ imprisonment and $25,000 reparation in the Manukau District Court on charges relating to fraudulent property transactions over the period July 2011 to September 2011. The charges were laid by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO).
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14 April 2014
Michelle Roberta Innes (59) has been found guilty today in the Auckland District Court to Crimes Act charges laid by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO).
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04 April 2014
Ronald Peter Rosenberg (72) and Sydney Lio Hunt (46) have been found guilty in the Wellington District Court today of charges involving or up to $17 million of fraud.
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02 April 2014
Ramni Kumar (46) was sentenced in the Auckland District Court today to 12 months’ Home Detention and 250 hours of Community Work for the role she played in a $3.9 million mortgage fraud scheme.
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26 March 2014
Jimmy Ming Miu (47) has been found guilty of Crimes Act charges in the Auckland District Court today following a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) prosecution.
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04 March 2014
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has laid Crimes Act charges relating to an investigation into the conduct of Linnet Lewis (54).
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18 February 2014
Malcolm Duncan Mayer (57) was sentenced today in the Auckland District Court to six years’ imprisonment for orchestrating a $47 million mortgage fraud.
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30 January 2014
Rene Alan Chalmers (43) has been sentenced in the Auckland District Court to four years and three months’ imprisonment following Serious Fraud Office (SFO) charges of theft by person in special relationship, dishonestly taking or using a document and false statement by promoter.
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20 January 2014
Ramni Kumar (45) has entered a guilty plea in the Auckland District Court to 10 charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO).
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