Monthly Archives: December 2010

“White-collar crime investigator” (SFO) probes suspected “serious or complex fraud”

SFO opens probe into Bublitz’s Mutual Finance – Stuff Business News 30/12/2010 The Serious Fraud Office opened an investigation into the dealings of failed minor lender Mutual Finance last week. The white-collar crime investigator began its probe on December 23 after receiving information from the financier’s receiver and the Ministry of Economic Development’s National Enforcement [...]

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Better Business Services, Inc. and Porn Marketing Connections ‘Down Under’

Better Business Services, Inc., also referred to as BBS Inc, was incorporated in San Antonio, Texas, on November 11th, 1983, and was authorised under Texas Charter number 67876000 to carry out defined business activities in Texas including those carried out in a certified public accountancy practice (tax returns, bookkeeping, payroll etc). It has no accreditation with [...]

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Identity theft – US Man Charged for reading wife’s email

“Privacy law writer Frederick Lane told the Detroit Free Press the law typically is used to prosecute identity theft and stealing trade secrets.”

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‘Crass’ News Item on Child Abuse Draws Formal Complaint [from Family First NZ]

MEDIA RELEASE: 28 December 2010 Source www.familyfirst.org.nz Family First NZ has laid an official complaint with the Broadcasting Standards Authority over a disgraceful TV3 Nightline news story (ref. 1) broadcast on the day before Christmas Eve which trivialised and made light of child sex abuse. [Family First NZ is a registered charity with the NZ [...]

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Computer South Ltd finally Struck Off – Funnel for money laundering and fraud

Finally, on 24 December 2010, the Registrar of Companies struck off Computer South Ltd (which had its registered office for over 13 years with Checketts McKay Law, Wanaka), from the Companies Office list of registered companies. ‘Directed’ by plumber Peter Bruce Ibbotson since it was incorporated on 20 March 1997, with Iain Grant Fyfe, a [...]

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New chief censor appointed – Dr Andrew Jack

Public Servant and legal expert Dr Andrew Jack is the new chief censor. He replaces Bill Hastings who resigned in July 2010. Dr Jack, Customs’ legal and advisory services group manager, is currently chief legal adviser for the NZ Police. His three-year term as chief censor starts on 7 March 2011. See Media Release Wednesday, [...]

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Crafar Farm deal rejected by Ministers – At issue: Lack of “good character”

“The Ministers were not satisfied that all of the individuals with control of Natural Dairy were of good character. Accordingly, consent was declined.” Ms Annelies McClure Manager OIO. Overseas Investment Office Media release – 22 December 2010 – Copy Ministers decline Natural Dairy application for Crafar farms Hon Maurice Williamson and Hon Kate Wilkinson have [...]

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Court signals seriousness of white collar crime – banned company directors – jailed

Two of four former Five Star Finance directors, Nicholas Kirk, 65, an accountant and Marcus MacDonald, 89, a lawyer, were sentenced to prison terms at Auckland District Court today. All had been banned by the Registrar of Companies from acting in any management role in tany company, for five years, in April 2009. Five Star Finance was put [...]

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Study shows sex addicts turned off by intimacy

SEX addicts are actually more likely to avoid sex in a relationship, new research from Massey University has found. The findings also show people with appetites for online sex, prostitution, sex that puts you at risk of harm, degrading sex, or public indecency tend to have commitment issues.

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NZ’s image tarnished by outcome survey on corruption

New Zealand may not be the corruption free zone that the world perceives, with a new survey claiming 3.6 per cent of people admit to paying a bribe in the past 12 months. Commissioned by anti-corruption organisation Transparency International, the survey found 3.6 per cent of New Zealanders said that either they, or someone in [...]

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Brothel madam’s sentence “appallingly light” says mother of victim of criminal exploitation

A Christchurch mother is disgusted a brothel madam who illegally employed her 16-year-old daughter as a stripper in a graphic sex act has received an “appallingly light” sentence. Anna Anastazja Horlor, 59, who operated four Christchurch brothels employing 80 workers, was sentenced yesterday in the Christchurch District Court to six months home detention and 200 [...]

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Bankrupting May Wang “in the interests of justice” – Assoc. Judge Hannah Sargisson

Associate Judge Hannah Sargisson is reported as saying yesterday, that making prominent businesswoman May Wang bankrupt, while not an easy decision, was correct “in the interests of justice“.  But many may be asking: ‘what exactly does this (quoted) phrase mean and how does it relate to the broader concepts of “truth”, “moral absolutes”, “ethical standards”, “public interest” and “community standards” [...]

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May Wang Declared Bankrupt – SFO Probes Crafar Farm Purchases

Failed property developer May Wang – the woman fronting the bid to buy the Crafar farms from receivers – has been made bankrupt by the High Court at Auckland.

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NZ White Collar Crime: Two guilty in million-dollar fraud cases

The SPCS contends that some of the more spectacular symptoms that reveal how New Zealand society has lost its moral bearings, include the steady growth in its million dollar white collar crime ‘industry’, involving fraud, bribery, theft, and dishonesty etc. Hitting the headlines with growing regularity it seems, are middle-aged grey-haired balding, or completely bald [...]

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Parents [in Manukau City - Auckland] ‘put teens into sex work’

Just as the Society (SPCS) predicted when it presented its written and oral submissions to the Justice and Electoral Seclect Committee considering the Prostitution Reform Bill back in 2001-2003; the decriminalisation of prostitution has indeed led to a growth in under- age girls working as prostitutes on city streets, in some cases even supported by their [...]

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