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Serious Fraud Office

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Court 17 Mar 2025
Former charity worker pleads guilty to theft from community care trust

PORIRUA — A former charitable trust employee pleaded guilty last Friday to stealing more than $1 million of funds intended for social support services in Porirua.

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Court 31 Oct 2024
Second IT contractor pleads guilty to receiving $4.1 million in kickbacks

AUCKLAND CITY — A former IT contractor has pleaded guilty to receiving over $4 million in kickbacks in a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) bribery and corruption case.

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Crime 29 Apr 2023
Former investment company executive facing fraud charges named

A former executive who is alleged to have fraudulently obtained more than $2 million from the investment company he worked for can now be named after the Court lifted name suppression.

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Crime 6 Apr 2023
Further charges filed in COVID-19 wage subsidy fraud case

An Auckland man charged by the Serious Fraud Office for allegedly submitting false COVID-19 wage subsidy applications is now facing further fraud charges related to COVID relief funds and GST returns.

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Crime 30 Mar 2023
Former head of family violence prevention charity guilty of fraud

MANUKAU CITY — The former head of a charity which sought to help prevent family violence has today been found guilty of using fake invoices to steal around $44,000 from the organisation.

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Court 25 Oct 2012
SFO investigation alleges serious abuse of trust

AUCKLAND — The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) laid Crimes Act charges against Michelle Roberta Innes (58) today in the Auckland District Court.

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Advertising 25 Oct 2012
Arrests follow joint agency advertising invoice scam operation

Six people have been arrested, and search warrants or other activities undertaken at over 25 locations in the North and South Islands, in a major joint enforcement agency operation lead by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) with support from the New Zealand Police, the Organised and Financial Crime Agency of New Zealand, the Commerce Commission, New Zealand Customs, and Inland Revenue.

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Crime 18 Aug 2012
Bridgecorp CFO guilty plea concludes SFO investigation

The former Chief Financial Controller of Bridgecorp Limited (Bridgecorp), Cornelis Robert Roest (56) has today pleaded guilty in the Auckland District Court to one Crimes Act charge and two Companies Act charges brought against him by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO).

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Court 20 Mar 2012
Tax agent receives additional sentence for SFO fraud charges

WELLINGTON CITY — Ian Victor Petersen, a 62 year-old man from Waikanae, has appeared in the Wellington District Court and was sentenced to an additional six months imprisonment for failing to pay reparation of $110,000 to the victims of his fraud as had been ordered when he was sentenced in March 2011.

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