Media releases

A foreign exchange trader has pleaded not guilty to running a Ponzi scheme to defraud his clients of more than $7 million.

A former chartered accountant has pleaded not guilty to charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office.

A former Auckland liquidator has entered no plea to fraud charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office.

A Christchurch couple have received community-based sentences for defrauding a government-funded disability trust of nearly $500,000.

An Auckland man who operated a foreign exchange brokerage and trading business has been charged with fraud that saw his largest investors allegedly lose more than $1 million each.

Two former employees of a charity that offered domestic violence prevention services for Pacific Islanders have been charged by the Serious Fraud Office.

Two businessmen have been jailed on charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office of fraudulently obtaining a large bank loan to build an Auckland inner-city apartment block.

A real estate agent has been sentenced to seven months’ home detention and 200 hours of community work on charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office.

A former chartered accountant has appeared in the Auckland District Court on fraud charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office.

A former employee of the organisation entrusted with the care of the Waitangi Treaty Grounds has pleaded guilty to charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office.

A 30-year-old former employee of the trust that looks after the Waitangi Treaty Grounds has been charged by the Serious Fraud Office.

Two people have been jailed for their involvement in a scheme that illegally obtained, through deception and bribery, residential home loans for a property development group, LV Park. 

A jury has found two men guilty of fraudulently obtaining a large bank loan to build an Auckland inner-city apartment block.

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A Christchurch couple have pleaded guilty to defrauding a government-funded disability trust of nearly $500,000 on charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office.

A real estate agent has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining commissions from the Selwyn District Council on charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office.

A former trustee of Parengarenga 3G (P3G) has been sentenced to 12 months' home detention and ordered to pay $5000 in reparation for defrauding the trust that manages a forested block of Māori land.  

A serial fraudster who persuaded Cantabrians to invest more than $8 million in a fake foreign exchange brokerage has been jailed for seven years and six months.

The Serious Fraud Office and Reserve Bank of New Zealand are each investigating matters relating to CBL Insurance and associated entities.

The three defendants in a Serious Fraud Office trial who worked together to illegally obtain home loans have been convicted. 

The former finance manager of a Hamilton-based social services provider has pleaded guilty to an additional 99 fraud charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office.

A property consultant who sold real estate in a business park near Christchurch has been sentenced to two years and nine months' imprisonment on 14 charges of obtaining by deception brought by the Serious Fraud Office.

Prominent Maori performing arts educator Donna Grant has appeared at the Rotorua District Court on charges laid by the Serious Fraud Office.

A Christchurch man has pleaded guilty to fraud in relation to a sophisticated Ponzi scheme masked as a foreign exchange brokerage.

A former trustee of a trust which manages a block of forested Māori land has pleaded guilty to defrauding the entity of nearly $1 million in a Serious Fraud Office prosecution.

A property consultant has admitted defrauding the Selwyn District Council in a Serious Fraud Office prosecution.

The former asset manager of a tax-payer funded disability trust has been sentenced to eight months of home detention and ordered to pay reparations of $164,929 on charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office.

A Christchurch man who defrauded his clients of at least $17.5 million through a Ponzi scheme has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of four years on charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office.

The former financial manager of a tax-payer funded social services provider has pleaded guilty to defrauding the entity of about $60,000.

Transparency International has ranked New Zealand’s public sector again as the least corrupt in the world.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has concluded its investigation into a free-range eggs producer.   

A property developer who mastermined a $54-million mortgage fraud has been jailed for four years and seven months.

The second and final defendant in a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) case has pleaded guilty to fraud in the Auckland High Court today.