Millionaire merchant banker Sam Kelt has admitted a disorderly behaviour charge from a drunken offence at a Taupo bar and has been fined $200.
Kelt, 38, of Hawke's Bay, pleaded guilty by letter to Justices of the Peace, Gordon Stevenson and Doreen Blyth, at the Taupo District Court yesterday after he was arrested for refusing to leave a Taupo bar on August 23.
Kelt, who is also known as David Andrew James Kelt, was fined $200 for the incident and $132 in court costs.
Mr Stevenson said before the court that Kelt was aggressive and disorderly and that this offence was his second within a year. On the night of August 23, Kelt was out drinking with a friend at the Element Bar on Tuwharetoa St when they were asked by the bar manager to leave after they had become drunk.
Last year he was convicted and discharged on disorderly behaviour, after he was alleged to have taken a "flying kung-fu kick" at a passing car.
