New forgery charges for ex-FMA man Kiro

Police have filed a further nine charges against Benjamin Kiro. Three of the charges allege forgery, two allege use of a forged document and three allege theft. Photo / Facebook

An ex-Financial Markets Authority analyst accused of forging his academic record to get that job is now facing a further nine charges, including for allegedly providing a forged employment contract with Fonterra to rent a downtown Auckland apartment.

Police have alleged Benjamin Anthony Kiro forged an academic record from Australian universities, and used a false curriculum vitae to obtain employment at the FMA, which regulates New Zealand's capital markets. He has not worked at the regulator for several months.

Kiro, 35, is also alleged to have convinced women he met on online dating sites such as Tinder, or businessmen introduced to him by associates, to invest in companies soon to list on the stock exchange.

Police alleged the funds given to him, ranging from $2000 to $120,000 from each of the six complainants, were never invested.

Those allegations are associated with 11 forgery or theft charges laid in September against Kiro in the Auckland District Court.

Police have now filed a further nine charges against Kiro, whose case came back to court today. Three of the charges allege forgery, two allege use of a forged document and three allege theft. The ninth charge, the nature of which the Herald could not confirm, was only laid this morning and saw Kiro arrested when he came to court. Police are opposing bail and that issue is due to be argued this afternoon.

According to court documents filed this morning, Kiro allegedly used a forged Fonterra employment contract to obtain a tenancy for an apartment on Gore Street in Auckland's central business district.

It is understood that Kiro lived in the apartment for a short time last year.

Kiro, according to new court documents, also allegedly falsified an offer of employment from AMP Capital as head of investment operations and a contract with AMP Capital in his own name with a $146,000 salary.

As well as this, he is now alleged to have also falsified a letter of employment for BT Financial Group.

The three new theft charges allege Kiro was given a total of $70,000 from three different people to invest on their behalf but intentionally used the funds not in accordance with their requirements.