The Society’s December 2009 Newsletter (Issue 110), among other things, addressed the questions:

• Who is funding the New Zealand porn industry linked to “porn entrepreneur”  and NZ “Porn King” Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow? (He is now a banned as a company director for four years – see below).
• Who is company director John Malcolm Carr (see photo: http://www.carr.co.nz/images/jmc.jpg), an American citizen who is Principal of Carr Consulting P.A. (A Florida-based Professional Association) and who directs hardcore porn company Eden Digital Ltd and its mother company CVC Group Ltd? (Note: Steve Crow resigned as co-director of both companies on 15 May 2010, the day after he was served a 4-year banning order – see below).
• Is there a porn money trail leading from the US to Godzone?
• Why are unsecured creditors of four failed porn companies formerly directed by Steve Crow (two are currently still in liquidation), unable to be paid money owed them?
• Why is the NZ porn industry so closely tied to John Malcolm Carr, director and owner of NZ-registered companies – Velocity Partners Ltd, First Virtual Deposit & Nominee Co. Ltd, PJ Digital Ltd and Shelf Company No 10 Ltd (The latter owns a 3 million dollar plus property at Pakiri Beach, Wellsford)?
• Why has the National Enforcement Unit of the NZ Companies Office (NEU) and the Registrar’s Office been investigating company director Steve Crow and John M Carr and the companies they direct and/or own?
• Why is the Overseas Investment Office currently investigating the purchase of a $3,000,000 “sensitive” coastal property at Pakiri Beach purchased on 4 October 2005 by the NZ registered company Shelf Company No 10 Ltd owned and directed by John M Carr CPA?

The companies schematic diagram below, updated on 25 June 2010,  is based on one taken from the Society’s December 2009 Newsletter (latest high definition version is available here in PDF format). Just two days after the Dec. Newsletter was published on our website Mr John M Carr changed all four company shareholdings – at the centre of the diagram – from “Cuchara Inc” (a defunct corporation name) to “Carr Consulting P.A.” and changed the shareholder’s address from 22588 Scenic Loop Rd, San Antonio,  TX 78230-2253, US to 14/31 Greenlane Road East, Remuera, Auckland 1050. Then on 20 April 2010, while under investigation by the NEU, he transferred all the shares of all four companies into his own name and recorded his  ”residential address” as Flat 14 Remuera Mews, 31 Greenlane East, Remuera, Auckland 1050. Checketts McKay Trustees Limited is the trustee for this property as well as 371 other properties throughout New Zealand. Charged with eight offences under the Financial Reporting Act 1993 brought against him by the Ministry of Economic Development, Mr John M Carr was summoned to appear before the Auckland District Court on 12 August 2010. Neither he nor his lawyer appeared and the case was adjourned at his lawyer’s request to 31 August. It was then adjourned again until 28 September. The case was then adjourned again and is now set down for 2.15 pm Friday 15 October 2010 in Courtroom 2. In the meantime on 2, 3 & 13 September, Mr Carr’s operations officer Deirdre Coker of Flat 14, 31 Green Lane, Remuera 1050 went on-line on the Companies Office website and changed Mr Carr’s residential address and his shareholder address where applicable, for all companies he directs and/or owns, to 289 Cornish Point Road, Cromwell 9384, New Zealand. On 13 September Mr Stuart Cairns, co-director of New Zealand Petroleum Exploration Ltd, changed Mr Carr’s residential address from the Remuera one to 289 Cromwell Point Rd, Cromwell 9384. On 14 September Mr John Frederick Commins, co-director with Mr Carr of IP Investors Ltd, did the same thing.