Three members of a South Canterbury family were booked for drink-driving on the same night. At 12.15 am on Saturday, a boy, 15, was stopped and arrested for drink-driving on State Highway 1 near Timaru. He blew 529 micrograms per litre of breath, more than three-and-a-half times the youth limit. He was taken to Timaru police [...]
Two Nelson teenagers have admitted beating a 16-year old schoolmate in an hour long ordeal before ordering him to strip to his underpants and lie in a crucifixion position while they mocked him and took photographs. The victim lost consciousness during the attack at a Nelson school last month, in which he was punched, kicked, [...]
The Dominion Post reports today: “[Stephen Peter] Crow, who is desperate not to carry a conviction as it would bar him from entering the United States where much of his pornography is obtained: said “I plead not guilty” [before Judge Russell Johnson in the Auckland District Court yesterday]. Crow’s “not guilty” plea was entered in relation [...]
The Ministry of Economic Development (MED) and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) commented favourably in late December 2010 on the custodial sentences imposed by a judge on two company directors convicted of breaching the law, saying that the sentences sent a clear “denunciation and deterrent” message to other company directors. Prior to this judgment both directors had been banned for five years by [...]
Alerted to terrible conditions on foreign-crewed fishing vessels after nearly 30 people lost their lives, Michael Field began asking questions. [It appears from his research that New Zealand government officials have been turning a blind eye to moral corruption and human rights abuses in the fishing industry for years... read on]. SECRET PAPERS obtained under [...]
Serious Fraud Office boss Adam Feeley has warned that a new report showing a surge in the value of fraud convictions is only scratching the surface of the true cost of financial crime in New Zealand. The latest KPMG fraud barometer showed that the value of fraud convictions in New Zealand in 2010 was more [...]
How can good community standards be upheld if an order imposed by an enforcement agency is knowingly and deliberately flouted? One company director with a high profile, now disgraced, and whose company owes thousands of dollars to creditors, has learnt the hard way. He is heading off to jail for one month as punishment for [...]
Lawmakers have been urged to appeal the “pathetic” sentence handed down by Judge Alan MacKenzie on Friday in the Palmerston North High Court to a man who killed his former partner’s toddler because she wouldn’t listen to him. She suffered horrific injuries after Sean James Donnelly, 23, a former security guard, swung her around by [...]
Workplace fraud totalling millions of dollars is hitting firms at a time when they need every cent to climb out of the recession. According to a survey by accountancy firm KPMG, New Zealand’s top companies have been hit hard during the global financial crisis with the average reported fraud doubling in two years. Stephen Bell, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Registered charity challenges Court of Appeal’s child porn ruling
Stop Demand Foundation, a registered charity (CC 30599) with the Charities Commission, has attacked a Court of Appeal decision granting name suppression to a 50-year old Manawatu man found guilty of possessing images of child rape. The charity’s founder, Denise Ritchie, who was interviewed on TV One’s Breakfast programme about the matter this morning, says the Court’s decision is a [...]