NZ Escort Directory Launched Source: Story by Frances Morton. June 5, nzherald.co.nz One week after pleading guilty to directing a company while banned, porn magnate Steve Crow has announced a new business venture. [Crow is listed as a "disqualified director" on the Companies Office website www.companies.govt.nz - banned for four years under s. 385 of the Companies [...]
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 [...]
Having spent almost a year unsuccessfully seeking to contact American businessman John Malcolm Carr, director of two porn companies, at his listed “residential address” in Remuera, Auckland; National Enforcement Unit officials from the Company Office may need to look elsewhere to serve him, should the need arise to lay further charges against him under the [...]
Section 385 of the Companies Act 1993 empowers the Ministry of Economic Development to ban company directors for up to five years who have a history of unsuccessful ventures. David Bruce Crow of Inglewood is sole director of Buildwise Ltd (In Liq) and also directs 435 Devon Ltd which faces imminent strike off from the [...]
The Deputy Registrar of Companies, Peter Barker, issued a media release on 19 May 2010 (InfoNews) noting: The Registrar of Companies has the power under section 385 of the Companies Act 1993 to prohibit persons from being a director, or involved in the management of companies. The power can apply to any person who has [...]
Eden Digital Ltd, former holder of Erotica Lifestyles Expo license: – in liquidation
Eden Digital Ltd, a company that sold and distributed hardcore pornography in New Zealand for over three years and until recently was directed by US investor John Malcolm Carr, was placed into liquidation yesterday, 22 November 2011. The majority of its $434,000 debt is owed to the NZ Inland Revenue Department and Trade creditors are owed $119,000 [...]