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The former boss of collapsed company Access Brokerage will stand trial on $3.9 million Serious Fraud Office charges, despite his attempts to stop the case going ahead on health grounds.
Peter Marshall, who was head of the Wellington-based company when it folded in 2004, faces 14 charges of false accounting.
Marshall, 61, asked the High Court in Wellington for a review of the district court judge's decision to not stay the trial on the basis of his ill health.
However, Justice Robert Dobson dismissed the review, saying the district court judge had considered all the arguments properly.
The trial is set to begin in Wellington District Court on March 30.
Details of Marshall's medical condition have been suppressed.
- NZPA
