A convicted fraudster and "bachelorette" who hoped to steal Art Green's heart has admitted ripping off taxpayers for more than $20,000.

A mother who forced her children to undergo unnecessary surgery in order to orchestrate England's biggest ever benefit fraud, has been jailed.

An Auckland International Airport worker has sold her house to pay back her former employer.

Mercury is attempting to get hold of the assets of its jailed former engineer and his estranged wife. Police have also filed an application

The amount of money which SkyCity is trying to recover from its former worker Tessa Grant has more than doubled to $2.5 million.

Two Wellington accountants serving prison terms on 110 counts of tax fraud have exhausted the last avenue of appeal against their convictions.

Former Maori leader Ngatata Love has been taken to hospital as his fraud trial entered its second week.

A former tax agent who didn't pay his clients' tax to the Inland Revenue Department and falsified 250 GST and income tax returns in

Britain's Serious Fraud Office is launching a formal investigation into suspected fraud, bribery and corruption in connection with commercial plane sales by Airbu

An Auckland man accused of a multi-million-dollar fraud today turned up to court asking to be put into custody.

This is Gwenda Christine Bush, one of NZ's most prolific fraudsters - during the past 40 years she has amassed more than 600 dishonesty convictions.

A beauty queen pleaded guilty to stealing up to $30,000 for faking cancer, telling the judge she faked it to get attention.

Former Ross Asset Management investor Hamish McIntosh told the Supreme Court he was entitled to fictitious returns on $500,000 he invested in the ponzi scheme.

A test case that will decide how much the liquidators of David Ross' ponzi scheme can claw back from investors is being argued in the Supreme Court today.

Two Masala restaurant directors have been found in contempt of court and fined after failing to deliver documents to liquidators.

A fraudster who ripped off victims and faked his CV to get a job with the Financial Markets Authority has lost his bid to reduce his jail sentence.

He was a big star in the private equity world. Now, Andrew Caspersen is facing years in prison.

Properties linked to the Masala restaurant empire, restrained under the country's biggest ever asset seizure, have been pulled from mortgagee sale.

COMMENT: Is Auckland's hot property market enticing some buyers to stray into dishonesty?

Inland Revenue says the latest telephone phishing scam is unusual because it's still generating 200 complaints a day.

Recidivist scam artist posed as a millionaire entrepreneur to rip people off in her latest con jobs.

A High Court judge has thrown out a defence put up by two Masala restaurant bosses to a liquidators' claim.

Oz accountant fails to keep fancy cars, posh house and NZ bank account.

When the police raided the Auckland home of fraudster Eli Devoy, they found a "veritable Aladdin's cave of compromising material".

Eli Devoy faces jail over fraudulent scheme involving 11 Auckland properties.

Yunjuan Li pleaded guilty to six charges of supplying false or misleading information to an immigration officer.

Upper Hutt College was swindled out of $375,000 by its former executive officer Donald Hancox, who today pleaded guilty to 10 fraud charges.

A grandmother sentenced for a "despicable" fraud that cost an elderly Queensland dementia sufferer her home is to be deported to New Zealand.

COMMENT: Van Heeren claims he cannot pay the US$25m as most of his assets have been transferred to tax haven-based entities.

Steven Morrow is behind bars pending sentencing after pleading guilty to 40 tax fraud charges.