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The men suspected of having stolen war medals were back in court yesterday on unrelated fraud and burglary charges.
The pair, who can only be known as W and K because of a court order, did not oppose media applications to photograph and film them during the hearing at the Auckland District Court.
Suspect W faces 44 fraud-related charges. and suspect K faces 12 fraud and burglary-related charges in the same case.
An Auckland Crown prosecutor, Bruce Northwood, is allegedly one of the victims of the fraud-related charges.
The two men also appeared in the same court last week on other, also unrelated, burglary charges.
No arrests have been made in the theft of 97 war medals, including nine Victoria Crosses, from Waiouru Army Museum on December 2.
Police raided addresses linked to W and K last week, as well as Mt Eden Prison, where W is being held. He W was wearing a Mt Eden Prison uniform in court yesterday.
The hearing revealed that Chris Comeskey, the lawyer who has claimed credit for the return of the medals, is acting for W on the fraud-related charges.
Mr Comeskey did not appear, and his associate Jesse Soondram was in court instead.
The reason the two men cannot be named is an interim suppression order protecting W's identity in relation to court documents outlining a deal he struck with police over the return of a stolen Goldie painting. For this reasons, yesterday's courtroom photographs cannot be shown unaltered.
The deal resulted in him being out on bail when the medals were stolen on December 2 after police dropped charges against him in return for the Goldie and other artefacts taken from the University of Auckland in an earlier crime.
K ran from last week's court hearing and into Mr Comeskey's office, eventually jumping from an upper-floor window and making a series of leaps to the street below to escape waiting journalists.
