Former National Party candidate Jake Bezzant and his New Zealand business partners are being sued by a US investor over an alleged fraudulent scheme to solicit a US$50,000 ($86,000) investment in a company represented as an electric vehicle charging business.
Georgia resident John Stapleton on Wednesday (NZT) filed a civil action for securities fraud and related claims against New Zealand company Invisible Urban Charging and Bezzant, among others.
Invisible Urban Charging, co-founded by Bezzant in 2019, is an electric vehicle (EV) charging service providing high volumes of EV chargers to customer sites for a flat monthly fee.
Bezzant resigned as a director of Invisible Urban and left politics after former partner Tarryn Flintoft said in a podcast at the time he had been impersonating her online without her consent and soliciting images from other social media users. He denied the allegations.
