Receivers preparing to oust Crafar

Allan Crafar says he has no plans to leave his home. Photo / Daily Post

The receivers acting for the Crafar family farms say they are preparing to launch legal action against Allan Crafar in a bid to have him removed from the land.

KordaMentha said it was in negotiations with its lawyers to start legal proceedings against Allan Crafar, who has vowed to remain on family land until he is forced out.

A KordaMentha spokesperson said Crafar, as the director of Plateau Farms Limited (in receivership), no longer controlled the properties and therefore had no legal right to be living there.

"The next step in the process will involve consulting our lawyers to discuss initiating legal proceedings to have him removed."

Crafar earlier rejected an offer from the receivers for six months' free rent in Rotorua, if he left the farm on April 9.

Allan's son Robert, is also understood to be residing on the property, while Frank Crafar has told KordaMentha he will move, but only if he is paid the six months' free rent offered by the receivers as a lump sum.

The Crafar family owes more than $200 million to PGG Wrightson, Westpac and RaboBank after its four central North Island farms went into receivership in October last year.

Allan Crafar said he was standing his ground saying "when you're right you fight".

Crafar claimed production was down 40 per cent down this season, and that the farms needed to be returned to the people for the good of the country.

"If that is the way they want to run the country they may as well bugger off," he said.

"They're just thieves who are basically stealing all our money."

KordaMentha said the removal of directors and other people involved in the management of the company from the properties was not unusual in the circumstances.

KordaMentha said it required the properties for current and incoming staff "so that we can continue to operate them effectively."

The spokesperson said while under no legal obligation to do so, the receivers made an "unprecedented and generous offer" to three Crafar families of six months' free rent in separate homes in Rotorua.

"We are disappointed Allan Crafar has not taken up this offer."