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Carr Consulting P.A. Porn Company Director John M. Carr and his Companies’ US shareholder connections unmasked

The Society’s latest Newsletter (Issue 110, Dec. 2009), among other things, addresses the questions:

Who is funding the New Zealand porn industry linked to “porn entrepreneur” Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow? Who is company director John Malcolm Carr, an American citizen who is Principal of Carr Consulting P.A. (Professional Association) and who co-directs porn company Eden Digital Ltd and its mother company CVC Group Ltd along with “NZ Porn King” Mr Crow? Is there a porn money trail leading from the US to Godzone? Why are unsecured creditors of four  porn companies formerly directed by Steve Crow, currently in liquidation as widely reported, unable to be paid? Why was the NZ porn industry linked to an apparently fictitious US shareholder identity – “Cuchara Inc, San Antonio, Texas” – a defuct Texas corporation – entered on the NZ Companies Office Register for nine years by company director John Malcolm Carr? [Until 16/12/09 "Cuchara Inc" was listed as owning 4 NZ registered companies Mr Carr currently directs: Velocity Partners Ltd, First Virtual Deposit & Nominee Co. Ltd, PJ Digital Ltd and Shelf Company No 10 Ltd that owns a 3 million dollar property at Pakiri Beach, Wellsford]. Why is the National Enforcement Unit of the NZ Companies Office (NEU) currently investigating companies directed by Mr Carr and Mr Crow? Why is the Overseas Investment Office currently investigating the purchase of a $3,000,000 “sensitive” coastal property at Pakiri Beach on 4 October 2005 by the NZ registered company Shelf Company No 10 Ltd -  directed by John M. Carr and owned 100% until 16/12/09 by “Cuchara Inc” (San Antonio, Texas)? What matters relating to shareholder “Cuchara Inc” are currently being investigated and pursued with John M Carr by the NEU?

The following diagram taken from the Society’s December Newsletter (available in PDF format from this website), is available in high-resolution PDF format here. [N.B. Just two days after the December SPCS Newsletter was published on our website Mr John M Carr changed all four company shareholdings of "Cuchara Inc" to "Carr Consulting P.A." and changed its address from 22588 Scenic Loop Rd, San Antonio,  TX 78230-2253, US to 14/31 Greenlane Rd, Remuera, Auckland. WHY?].

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John M Carr & more defunct NZ Petroleum Exploration Ltd Shareholders

John M Carr has been a director of New Zealand Petroleum Exploration Limited [NZPEL] (Co. No. 21102, Incorp. 3 July 1968) since 9 November 1994 and according to the latest Financial Report (Year ending 31 March 2007) holds 21,000 ordinary shares in the company. (The 2008 and 2009 Reports have not yet been registered with the NZ Companies Office). The largest current shareholder of this company (known as Triton Oil NZ Ltd prior to 16 December 1996) is Triton Energy Corporation, a defunct entity, that is recorded in the 2010 Annual Return as holding 5,752,130 of NZPEL’s 19,200,688 shares. The sixth largest parcel of NZPEL shares is currently listed as held by another defunct corporation Triton Energy Limited which was purchased by Amerada Hess Corporation in August 2001 which then changed its name to Hess Corporation on 8 May 2006.

A careful examination of the share listing on the 2010 Annual Report for New Zealand Petroleum Exploration Limited [NZPEL] and its latest Financial Report for the Year ended 31 March 2007, registered online with the NZ Companies Office 21 January 2010, reveals disturbing evidence of breaches of the Companies Act 1993 by the company directors.

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John M Carr and the defunct Triton Energy Corporation shareholder

John M Carr incorporated Triton Energy Corporation [TEC] on August 10, 2006 in the State of Florida and it is currently listed as “active” in State records. He is director, principal and registered agent of this “Domestic For Profit” corporation that has its principal business address at 1621 Hillcrest St, Orlando, FL 32803 – the same location where he claims Carr Consulting P.A., which he also directs, is busy rendering financial planning advice to Floridians in Florida. (Carr Consultancy P.A. [Professional Association] owns four New Zealand registered companies directed by John M Carr involved in property and with links to the hardcore porn industry). As director and principal of both Florida registered corporations, he provides the same contact address for both: John M Carr, PO Box 780637 San Antonio TX 78278-0881 US. (The State reference for TEC is ID P06000104633 and the FEI/EIN Number 205395254. It is located at PO Box 780881 San Antonio TX 78278).

And what type of business does Mr John M Carr’s “Triton Energy Corporation” [TEC] engage in? With an impressive oily name like that one might suspect a clear link to the oil and/or gas exploration and production industry engaged in by the now extinct world famous Triton Energy Corporation of Dallas, Texas,  – his corporation’s namesake that became defunct in the 1990s (see below).

“But, hey man, what’s in a name?,” might be the response of Mr John M Carr. “Corporation names and history mean nothing more than opportunities to exploit business connections and kudos,” he might add.

It is perhaps not surprising that Mr John M Carr appears a little coy when in comes to disclosing any matters of detail concerning his corporations’ business activities or his true residential address (see below). For ten years he used the name “Cuchara Inc” on New Zealand Companies Office records to disguise the true identity of the common shareholder (Carr Consulting P.A.) of four NZ companies he currently directs and one he used to direct before it was struck off the register of companies (see Society’s Dec. 2009 Newsletter).

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Companies Office foul up: 4 key docs registered 3 years late

The Society raised concerns with the Registrar of Companies, Mr Neville Harris, in a letter dated 19 January 2010 over the absence of 4 key shareholder consent documents from the Companies Office website, relating to 435 Devon Street Limited, a company incorporated by David Bruce Crow on 11 June 2007 and directed in 2008 by David and his brother “Porn King” Steve Crow. On 27 January 2010 another complaint was raised with the Office and today all 4 documents suddenly appeared on the website with the date of upload/registration entered as 9:39:04 am, 11 June 2007.  The Society’s letter to the Office (copied below) dated 28 January highlights its concern over this situation involving a Companies Office foul up. It also raises concerns over the appointment record of Stephen Peter Crow as a director, who now owns 50% of the company directed by his brother David.

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Reputation hostage to weak company law – Dominion Post

Quote from Editorial 20 January 2010, p. B4

“… But something is awry when one office in the Salvation Army’s Auckland building can be home to 2496 companies. And something else is wrong when New Zealand can be dragged into an international arms smuggling incident because one of those companies – SP Trading [Ltd] – was used to lease a plane detained at Bangkok Airport in December [2009]with 35 tons of missles and explosives on board…. The purpose of company law is to facilitate business. It is not to facilitate tax avoidance here or overseas or gun running or money laundering by shadowy figures overseas to give their dubious activities a patina of respectability by attaching a New Zealand PO box number to them…. [Critics of the Companies Office registration system, including the Society, consider that] more vigorous enforcement of existing law [is needed], the Government should get on with it. New Zealand’s reputation is at stake.”

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Steve Crow and David Crow 435 Devon Limited

FORMAL COMPLAINT TO REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES:

RE: Company Directors David Bruce Crow and Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow

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Carr Consulting P.A. and John M Carr.

FORMAL COMPLAINT TO REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES & MINISTER OF COMMERCE:

Re Company Director John Malcolm Carr

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Criminal Offence for Company director to knowingly supply false information to Companies Office.

An Auckland company director could face five years’ jail for supplying false information to the Companies Office, according to Roger Wallis, a partner in law firm Chapman Tripp, as reported in today’s Dominion Post (13 Jan.P. A5). Rules need to be enforced he said. Mr Wallis identified an Auckland company that he said had clearly breached Section 377 of the Companies Act 1993 prohibiting the making of false statements by both the director and the person incorporating the company. Read more

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Carr Consulting P.A. and offences against NZ Companies Act 1993

Commerce Minister Simon Power should discuss with officials the registration of companies with overseas directors such as John M Carr, after the recent flare up of controversy over New Zealand hardcore porn companies John Carr co- directs with “NZ Porn King” Steve Crow – which are all linked to a Florida registered professional association (P.A.) shareholder Carr Consulting P.A. Investigators should be looking at flaws in the New Zealand companies registration system that allowed a Texas-based NZ company director, John Malcolm Carr, with US and NZ citizenship, to falsely represent the shareholding of four NZ companies he directs (including Velocity Partners Ltd) and get away with it, using a false corporation name “Cuchara Inc” from 14 March 2000 until 16 December 2009.

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