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Hamilton City Council’s near miss as sexpo firm folds

The company wanting to host a sex expo at Claudelands went into liquidation the same day it asked the Hamilton City Council to agree to the show. Councillor Dave Macpherson said the council had had a lucky escape despite not being aware of the financial situation when it voted 9-1 last week against hosting the [...]

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Porn research awarded $790,000 by Marsden Fund

Auckland researchers have been awarded almost $800,000 to study pornography. The $790,000 study by Auckland University staff will look at how it affects viewers and its impact on society. The research will include studies on young men and women, an art exhibition, an interactive website and a public symposium. The project is one of 88 [...]

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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 [...]

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Naked Ambition – TVNZ doco

The new director of hardcore porn company Eden Digital Ltd, who has replaced American investor John Malcolm Carr, effective 13 September 2011, is Raymond (“Ray”) Sydney Corben Simpson – a resident of Mt Eden, Auckland (see www.companies.govt.nz). (John M Carr remains sole director of CVC Group Ltd which owns Eden Digital Ltd and he is [...]

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Three Energy Smart companies – all registered charities – in liquidation

A major player in the Government’s home insulation scheme has been put into liquidation by the directors of the Hutt Mana Charitable Trust – a registered charity with the Charities Commission, leaving a trail of more than $1.6 million in outstanding bills. Three limited liability companies that are charities registered with the Charities Commission, were put [...]

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Crafar Farms, Foreign ownership, May Wang & the Overseas Investment Act 2005

Enforcement agencies such as the National Enforcement Unit (NEU) of the Ministry of Economic Development (MED), the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the judiciary (the Courts/Justice system) and the Overseas Investment Office (OIO), all play a key role in upholding community standards, prescribed in law, promoting and serving the “public good” and advancing the welfare of [...]

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Steve Crow, banned company director, promotes porn sleaze on city streets

On Wednesday 11th August at 12.30 pm banned company director Steve Crow and Miss Erotica 2010 will be heading a parade of scorpion tanks, motorcycles with bare-breasted pillions and vehicles down Queen Street Auckland – in order to promote Crow’s failing hardcore pornography empire. Eden Digital Ltd directed by John Malcolm Carr, a San Antonio [...]

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Warning to company directors responsible for reckless trading during insolvency

For a company director to allow a company to continue to trade while it is insolvent is a breach of duty under section 135 or 136 of the Companies Act.  It is the duty of a Liquidator to report on any such reckless trading that is uncovered in the course of his or her efforts [...]

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Liquidation of Truth Publications Ltd: Conflict of Interests? Phoenix Companies?

On 3 November 2009 the NZ Herald reported that the publisher of the tabloid newspaper NZ Truth, Truth Publications Ltd, had gone into liquidation owing “unsecured creditors and subordinated lenders $622,074″. A decision had been made to “sell its assets to the company’s masthead owner, Multimedia Solutions, for $70,000.” Truth publications Ltd (In Liq), directed [...]

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What money is left for creditors of Truth Publications Ltd (In Liq)?

A liquidator’s report on Truth Publications Ltd (In Liq) dated 21 June 2010 has just today (5 July) been registered on the Companies Office website. It shows the balance for receipts and payments for the period ended 20 April 2010. A six-monthly report from the Liquidator was actually due out by 21 May 2010 informing [...]

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Truth Publication (In Liq) owes $622,000 – “Outstanding filing obligations”!

The newly updated and reformatted Companies Office website was officially opened at 8 a.m. Monday 28 June 2010. It reveals as at 3 July 2010 that for Truth Publications Ltd (In Liq) – “There are outstanding filing obligations in relation to this companys insolvency”. The company was put into liquidation on 21 October 2009 and [...]

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Stephen Peter Crow – Prohibition Dates for Banned Porn Company Director

Stephen Peter Crow was listed today, 28 May, 2010, on the New Zealand Companies Office Website as a Banned Director and Manager of Companies, effective from 16 April 2010 and ending on 16 April 2014, due to his offences committed under section 385 of the Companies Act 1993. His residential address is listed as are [...]

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Steve Crow banned as company director for four years – TV3 News

Wed, 19 May 2010 9:20 p.m. By Jono Hutchison Kiwi porn businessman Steve Crow has been banned from holding the position of company director for the next four years. He has been served with a notice by the Ministry of Economic Development, but says it’s unfair. Crow is vowing to fight the ban. “I got [...]

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Is Porn funding-directorship – a family business worth crowing about?

Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow appointed his brother David Bruce Crow of Inglewood and his sister Leanne Marie Osborn of Fitzroy, New Plymouth, as directors of HWGA Company Ltd – effective 15 May 2010. HWGA Co. Ltd currently owns 705,000 shares (40.38%) in CVC Group Ltd – a porn ‘mother company’ from which Steve Crow resigned [...]

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Steve Crow appoints his brother and sister to direct HWGA Co. Ltd

The major shareholder of porn ‘mother company’ CVC Group Ltd, from which Steve Crow has just resigned as director, is HWGA Co. Ltd which owns 40% of the CVC Group shares. Steve Crow who for the last ten months has been sole director of HWGA Co. Ltd and still remains its director, has today registered [...]

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Terrorism and money laundering – Guidance for Charities

The Charities Commission has produced a very helpful guide explaining how those involved in the charity sector can, among other things, identify and guard against money launderers who aim to legitimise money sourced in illegal activities, by chanelling it through charities. It also explains how charity funds have been siphoned off to finance terrorism – [...]

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John M Carr, Steve Crow, Porn & ‘new’ Carr-based funding sources

On 20 April 2010 John Malcolm Carr (whose residential address is listed as 14/31 Greenlane Road, Remuera, Auckland on the NZ Companies website) – registered his purchase of all the shares for each of the four NZ-registered companies he directs that were formerly all 100% owned by Carr Consulting P.A. (a Florida registered privately-owned corporation [...]

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Checketts McKay Law, John M Carr, Steve Crow and Liquidated Porn

A hardcore porn company Z4K74D (In Liq) – formerly called Vixen Direct Ltd and directed by NZ “Porn King” Steve Crow owed unsecured creditors $262,528 and the IRD $163,550 when put into liquidation on 27 May 2009. It has been unable to pay unsecured creditor Checketts McKay Law of Cromwell (Alan Bevin McKay of 35 The Mall, [...]

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John M Carr & more defunct NZ Petroleum Exploration Ltd Shareholders

John Malcolm 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 [...]

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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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Companies Act 1993 and Enforcement Issues

Potentially dangerous gaps in New Zealand’s company registration system have been revealed as an investigation continues by the Society into the operations of a number of NZ registered companies owned by a US-registered corporation, as well as the activities of its Principal and registered agent who directs the NZ companies. A NZ-based co-director of one [...]

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Mixing Business with Porn and Charity: John M Carr and Steve Crow

Many will now know that American citizen John M Carr is co-director, along with “Porn King” Steve Crow, of Eden Digital Ltd, a NZ registered company that sponsored and bank-rolled the recent “Boobs on Bikes” porn sleaze promo on Queen Street, Auckland, and its three-day follow-up Erotica Lifestyles Expo held at the ASB Showgrounds in [...]

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Porn King Steve Crow, Vixen Direct Ltd, Phoenix Companies and Criminal Sanctions

The Companies Act 1993 defines a phoenix company as being, in relation to a failed company, a company that at any time before or within five years after the commencement of the liquidation of a failed company, is known by a name that is also a pre-liquidation name of a failed company or is a [...]

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ASB Showgrounds host Porn Promo Sleaze and Steve Crow’s Insolvent Erotica Expo

The Society has raised serious concerns directly with ASB Showgrounds CEO Mark Frankham and his management team over their decision to allow the venue to be hired by an insolvent hardcore porn promo company – Erotica Expo Ltd – that was placed into liquidation on 27 May 2009 under the name Malibu Media Ltd. In [...]

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ASB Showgrounds, Erotica Expo Ltd in Liquidation & Role of Porn King Steve Crow

The ASB Showgrounds in Auckland has allowed a failed hardcore porn company that has been declared insolvent and consequently placed into liquidation on 27 May 2009, to organise a three-day porn promotion sleaze event where all cameras, videos and ptx phones are banned. (see: http://www.bvents.com/event/166191-erotica-lifestyles-expo ). Any person[s] found within the venue taking video or [...]

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Creditor fury over debt-ridden directors David and Steve Crow of Buildwise Ltd (In Liq) and 435 Devon St Ltd

Creditor fury at Crow show. By Rob Maetzig – Taranaki Daily News 29/08/09 A group of businessmen are furious the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce helped allow a debt-ridden man to be involved in a presentation on a major commercial development project for New Plymouth. David Crow is the director of Buildwise Ltd, an Inglewood building [...]

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Porn King Steve Crow Double Crosses RSA Members over Erotica Lifestyles Expo venue – RSA stalwarts ‘turn in their graves’

Porn King Steve Crow was a guest speaker at the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce Business After 5 function at the New Plymouth RSA on Wednesday 26th August 2009. It appears that he failed to tell the whole truth when he told more than 100 people in attendance that the RSA Strandon Clubrooms at 435 Devon [...]

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Company Directors Porn King Steve Crow and Dermott Malley, Porn Industry, Truth Weekly Tabloid, share transfer and company liquidation

Porn King Steve Crow was appointed co-director on 8 December 2005 of a company directed by Dermott Malley, and Linzi Frances Malley – Computer Shopper (NZ) Ltd (Co. No. 514464) – that is now in liquidation. According to the Liquidator’s Report dated 28 May 2009, it owes $163,550 to Second Ranking Preferential Creditor – the [...]

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CVC Group Ltd director Mr John Malcolm Carr and the Companies Act 1993

Concerns have been raised by the Society with the National Enforcement Unit (Report dated 19/08/09) over information registered on the Companies Office website by CVC Group Ltd director John Malcolm Carr relating to a number of companies he directs. Mr Carr has close links with fellow CVC Group Ltd director Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow [...]

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Good News: Steve Crow – his porn empire shrivels

Media Release: 11 July 2009 (updated) No. 1 Story http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/07/13/update-on-steve-crow-and-porn-empire-collapse/ “I’m quite happy for you to call me a pornographer [and] a sleazeball, whatever you want to call me. But keep it factual.” Steve Crow (Quoted in NZ Listener 2004). FOUR of Steve Crow’s porn companies of which he was sole director have gone belly up. [...]

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