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Those who gave their cars to this company to sell found out they are now short of loney after the cars are sold then the money is kept. Another scam in NZ. Car brokers said they could take the stress out of car selling, but one Auckland firm failed. Car brokers NZ New Cars has gone into liquidation, leaving one client without a car, $48,000 out of pocket as her car was supposedly sold but no money was given to her for the sale?? She tracked the company down but the doors are closed and noone in sight??. Close Up is trying to help one Meredith Donnelly as she tries to get whats owing to her back but so far its been a dead end.

NZ companies are on the move bigtime!!!!!

FRAUDSTERS IN NZ & WHAT THEY GET FOR STEALING : No pay back of the money???

2010, Ken Ross was found guilty of five criminal fraud charges in relation to the failed Wings and Wheels over Waikato air show, which left sponsors and exhibitors about $350,000 out of pocket. He was also found guilty of five breaches of the Fair Trading Act and got nine months home detention + 200 hours community work.

The about 10,000 investors owed $367.8 million when Strategic Finance went into receivership in March 2010 have so far received back seven cents in the dollar in three distributions totalling $26 million. Strategic directors were Kerry Finnigan, former All Black captain Jock Hobbs, Graham Jackson, Marc Lindale, Denis Thom and David Wolfenden. March 2010.

Dec 2010 bankrupt Alan Edwards Wycherley, 52, used the name of clients of a debt management company to get money from an Auckland finance firm, --- jailed for three years. He had pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud, nine charges of running a company while prohibited and two of illegally signing shareholder forms.” He was one of “two Waikanae men who appeared before the courts the same morning, in unrelated million-dollar fraud cases, in which one falsely claimed a client was terminally ill and the other submitted dodgy loan applications.” Both were sentenced by Judge Behrens not moneies paid back???

May 2011: Former Medicines New Zealand chief executive or CEO Denise Wood got 240 hours' community work for defrauding the industry association of $17,000. She used false invoices in the name of member companies to take the money.

Sept 2011: Susan Terri Hagai, 45 of Titahi Bay,admitted stealing more than $1.2 million from a Wellington church society & spent it on children's education, gambling, overseas trips to sporting events the usual wants. She pleaded guilty to one charge of obtaining $1,242,750 from the Hibernian Catholic Benefit Society April 2004 and December last year, and four of causing a loss to Hoff Holdings of $15,089 but she said it could have been more as she fleeced a bar she worked in as well. The Judge Tom Broadmore Hagai, jailed her for 4 years 2 months. But hey no restitution for those who lost their savings????

Sept 2011 Catholic Priest up for fraud?father John Fitzmaurice up for disappearing funds from the Sacred Heart church in Addington Christchurch--more to come?

Sept 23rd 2011 & Nov 4th 2011 Auckland couple Craig Mudgway 48 and Anita Cranston aged 34 took deposits from over 150 people????????? in NZ and Australia for luxury Fijian holidays for a property they never quite owned? $750 a night - 50% upfront, and the remainder to be paid in full a month out from their stay. Mudgway bought the four bedroom residence in 2007, but it was seized after he failed to make repayments on a private loan agreed with the property's owner, Stan Vandercroft. Anita said the Fijian courts hold the money but it went into her account so she could have returned it.?
Mudgeway also owes $25m to Westpac?? Craig Mudgway & Len Ross of Paxton Pacific Group were involved with Blue Chips.Icon Central, 156 units in St Martins Lane, off Symonds St, Icon Central Ltd. They were in court in Sept & Nov 4th for fraud & out on bail --- pleading not guilty to defrauding clients in the Fiji rental home. Interesting as their case draws more attention than many other serious cases like corporate fraud.

Oct 2011: Richard Dixon, 37 of Auckland, arrested for planning a wedding he never intended to stage with a Gisborne girl he met on the net + trying to get money from friends he befriended to sell them repossessed cars that never eventuated. Dixon was sentenced in the Gisborne District Court to 27 months in prison after pleading guilty in August to six charges of obtaining by deception. More charges are current.

Oct 6th 2011:Jonathan Kirkpatrick, the former chief executive of Auckland University AUT's Business Innovation Centre, was sentenced to three years and two months in prison. He stole more than $665,000 from his employer frittered the money away on a luxury car, holidays and entertainment. He was also ordered to pay reparation of $20,000 after selling his Mt Roskill home.

Oct 6th 2011 The former general manager of a law firm stole $370,000 . Peter James McClintock age 63 worked at McElroys Litigation and has pleaded guilty to seven charges of accessing a computer and two of false accounting. McClintock made 52 false entries to the company's wage reports, totalling $230,000 plus 6 false entries in the company's accounts totalling $100,000 & another fraudulent transaction of $20,000 plus various others.

Oct 6th 2011. In 2007, Tony Lusby from Hamilton set up a Samoa-based fund called Lifestyles Investment Group & also Phoenix Investment Club & Phoenix Joint Venture & promised investors he would deliver returns of 28 to 32 % a year by trading equities. The scheme went along until October last year, when the money and Mr Lusby vanished to Panama. Mr Lusby had defrauded 67 investors from New Zealand and Australia of $6.7 million & now hides in Panama living it up. The Feds are after him? Read more on: http://tonylusbycriminalproceedings.com/class-action

Oct 14th 2011former Act MP David Garrett suspended from practise for a year after swearing a false affidavit to a court while working as a lawyer. Garrett, left Parliament in Sept 2010, after it was found he was charged with stealing the ID of a dead child to get a passport in 2005 & saying he had no convictions. He had also been convicted of an assault in Tonga three years before so lied to get his Parlt status & now has a black mark against him. Silly boy.

November 4th former Hamilton Westpac bank manager Susan Ann Bourton 36 pleaded guilty to 25 charges of dishonestly of +$314,000 but not guilty to a further 56 fraud and dishonesty charges. She started Westpac accounts in other names plus an overdraft of $90,000 in June 2005 -2006 & flew Business class to the UK when she owed around $300,000. Bourton faces 81 charges & even used a clients mortgage payments for herself--hence the clients were behind?? how crazy is that so see what she gets after the case.

November 10th ex Datasouth director Gavin Bennett has been charged over a $103 million fraud-Ponzi scheme, $65 million of which he got from failed South Canterbury Finance using false documents. 2005-2011 he falsified docs and accounts selling computer hardware & financing them with South Canterbury? 40 odd people lost their jobs.

November 22nd Pork frauster up again was Tiwi Thrupp, 55, who got 6 months jail going door to door selling people pork with the promise to deliver next day---of course the pork never arrived. He conned many folk out of giving him money in Hamilton and he has been up a few times before for this kind of piggie fraud.

December 2011 Warren Attfield got 5 years in prison in 1996 for defrauding woodchip company South Wood Exports of $2.8m, most gambled at the TAB, over six years. He then moved to Australia & managed to get a job as finance officer at the Yaamba Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation for Men in Bundaberg, Queensland, in February 2006. He was caught after stealing $300,000 & received 6.5 yrs jail. Australia will now change the laws allowing Kiwis east access to come to AUSTRALIA with drug convictions when already if you do a year jail you cannot come in.

Other characters also who got done for fraud are too blame.

Rockforte Finance Gisborne Feb 2012. accountant Nigel Brent O'Leary and former banker Colin Mark Simpson, each face 34 Crimes Act charges and fellow director John Patrick Gardner faces 24 charges. They used funds to invest in their own personal business ventures.

LOMBARD FINANCE COMPANY: 4400 investors lost $125 million in the Lombard collapse. Sir Douglas Graham and Bill Jeffries are being stripped of their Parliamentary perks & on fraud charges. Graham was found guilty of making false statements as a director of Lombard Finance & will probably lose his SIR. Former cabinet ministers Sir Douglas Graham and William Jeffries, along with Lombard's chief executive Michael Reeves and former royal press secretary Laurie Bryant, were sentenced to community service in the High Court in Wellington--not bad for stealing and falsifying other peoples money. IF YOU HAVE MONEY AND POWER IN NZ YOU GET A LIGHT SENTENCE. Graham and Bryant got sentenced to 300 hours community service and ordered to pay $100,000 in reparations. Reeves and Jeffries have been sentenced to 400 hours community service with no financial penalty. BIG DEAL ISN'T THIS JUSTICE!!!!!!!!! Secured creditors were expected to be repaid less than 24 cents in the dollar. The trial ran before Justice Robert Dobson from October 18, 2011 to February 2 this year.

Datasouth Feb 2012 Group Director Gavin Clifford Bennett (53) wow embezzled $103m for call girls and you name it. The company went bust and he has pleaded guilty to his fraudulent business dealings. He got 8 years jail. $23 million from the taxpayer. He lead a life of luxury to Argentina, New York, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, New Caledonia, Rio de Janerio, San Francisco, Paris and London and had a ball.

Bridgecorp directors Rod Petricevic and Rob Roest were found guilty on all charges of misleading investors in the company's 2007 collapse. Peter Steigrad was convicted on five charges and not guilty and discharged on five charges. Rod Petricevic and Rob Roest have been remanded in custody-- jail term. Auckland High Court, by Justice Geoff Venning. Bridgecorp’s June 2007 collapse saw 14,000 investors lose $459 million – around $33,000 per investor but some lost $1m. Its a start to crack down on corporate fraud and about time. March 2012.

Bridgecorp director Rod Petricevic April 26th 2012 has been jailed for 6 ½ years. Petricevic was convicted on 18 charges of including misleading statements in an investment prospectus.Justice Geoffrey Venning said he did not believe Petricevic showed true remorse in the collapse of Bridgecorp --------- 14,500 investors lost $490 million.

Wellington property developer Hayim Nach who does not have a bank account was bankrupt owing $6.1 million under a guarantee made on behalf of one of his companies. April 2007 for a $5.8m loan to one of his companies, 10 Gilmer Ltd. Another of his companies operated a short-term accommodation and apartment rental business from 10 Gilmer Tce, Wellington. South Canterbury Finance owed over $1m , Levin Building Co trade creditor W Crighton and Son owed $100,000 and Inland Revenue $176,709. April 26th 2012.

Karen Margaret Hodgson stole $689,000-$1m from her former boss Geoff Truscott's Auckland engineering firm to bankroll & was addicted to shopping over 4 years. She got only 39 months jail & showed no remorse to her boss --the owner got nothing back for his efforts thanks to her. MaY 2012

The NSW Fair Trading Minister, John Watkins, has issued a warning about the known conman, Michael Helsby-Knight, who was involved in offering $499 refurbished Pentium 166 Laptops to NSW small businesses & conning kiwis selling computers in NZ under the name Computer World where he threatens to have a guys legs broken for non payment of a Laptop & was fined. He also ran scams in Pattaya Thailand where he ran cheap fares with no TAT license. Michael Helsby Knight had http://getmebacktopattaya.com yet he had no licenses & the website only has a header these days?? just another con artist back in NZ.

Neal Medhurst Nicholls and Wayne Leslie Douglas 19th July 2012 were accused of three counts of theft by a person in a special relationship and publishing false statements. They gave related-party loans of about $14.5 million to three companies that converted two 2 old Palmerston North office blocks into student accommodation, a project called "the Hub".CEO Owen Tallentire and Nicholls faced four charges each for theft by a person in a special relationship.Capital+Merchant went into receivership in November 2007 owing $167 million to around 7500 investors.

White & Blue collar fraud crime is endemic in NZ. With jail terms minimal for large scale $$$crimes the fraudsters get off lightly hiding their gains in Trust accounts of their wives and partners. As at 2013 November we were told lawyers and accountants can no longer access clients Trust accounts. Would you allow others to control your asset base. [ Read More ] Kiwi frauds & it aren't just the little folk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MURDER & THE COSTS TO THE TAX PAYER:

1/. Clayton Weatherston the cold blooded murderer tried every court avenue to get out of jail free. $300,000 later now has to do his 18 year non parol time in jail. Why was he allowed legal aid??? hell knows.

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