John William Jackson was sentenced to two years and five months in prison in the North Shore District Court yesterday following an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO).

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The director of an embattled bullion trading firm that owes investors at least $3 million could face civil action from its liquidator.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) last month launched a formal probe into Grace Holdings NZ, which ran the Bullion Buyer website, and seized documents from the company’s downtown Auckland offices.

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Richard Edgar Anderson (50), a real estate agent, of Lake Hayes Estate, and former detective who brought the annual Pub Charity Rugby Sevens tournament to Queenstown a decade ago faces charges of fraud totalling more than $237,000.

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Papamoa resident Martin Elliott, who was convicted of fraud last month, has resigned as a Justice of the Peace.

Elliott, a former high-profile Hamilton secondary school principal, pleaded guilty in January to two charges of using a document for pecuniary advantage.

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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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In the Feilding District Court yesterday, Peter Joseph Nitschke, 32, was sentenced to two years and three months’ jail on seven fraud charges relating to about $2.3m he obtained dishonestly.

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A woman ripped off the maker of energy drink V to the tune of half a million dollars by boosting a workers’ pay to $300 an hour.

Taki Bates pleaded guilty to fraud charges at the Manukau District Court yesterday.

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Three former Bridgecorp directors accused of misleading investors are set to discover their fate by Easter as their High Court trial edges to a close.

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The Serious Fraud Office, responsible for complex fraud investigations and prosecutions, is seeking deeper ties with the police and the Financial Markets Authority in a bid to target white collar fraud more aggressively.

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The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has revealed Gavin Clifford Bennett’s spending habits after the former Datasouth Finance director pleaded guilty to six charges of dishonestly using documents, and two charges of false accounting.

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