27 properties - some worth nearly $3m owned by those linked to the Masala restaurant chain will stay frozen.

The case between Alex van Heeren and Michael Kidd has reached a new round of appeals.

A financial adviser with clients in the Waikato and the Bay of Plenty has pleaded guilty in the Tauranga District Court to a $1.4 million fraud.

An IT worker at APN had defrauded the company of over $1.3m over five years; then he tried to lure a new accomplice.

COMMENT: Thanks New Zealand. Your collective dishonesty costs me thousands of dollars a year.

When it comes to cracking down on people not paying what they should, beneficiaries are much easier to go after, writes Paul Little.

Victoria Tanoi spent five years fleecing her employer of more than $1 million to fuel a gambling habit.

A Waikato mobile trader with about 50 customers wasn't complying with the law, says its liquidator.

Liquidators are trying to claw back some of this money and have served formal legal notices on 12 Arena Capital investors.

Christchurch-based foreign exchange firm owes clients $7 million.

Acquitted South Canterbury Finance chief executive Lachie McLeod was won court costs back from the Crown.

A woman has been jailed after fraudulently obtaining more than $800,000 to fund her "extravagant" lifestyle.

Our squeaky-clean reputation has been undermined by record migration from countries where corruption is high, says the Serious Fraud Office.

Thirty three properties across Auckland are tied up in a $34m asset freeze - New Zealand's biggest such case.

Fraudsters are using publicly available online information in a series of scam letters posted to Kiwis.

The father of a woman accused of ripping off SkyCity for more than $1.2 million has had freezing orders on his assets lifted.

What makes some people steal from strangers and others give?

Woman who stole almost $800,000 from a top school and is being chased by SkyCity for more than $1.2 million has had her assets frozen.

The husband of a woman allegedly at the heart of a $6 million mortgage fraud has been summoned as a prosecution witness in the case against her.

A doctor conned by a fraudster loses bid for name suppression.

Investors owed $2.7 million by a failed bullion company may now try to bankrupt its jailed boss, who prosecutors say ran a "bogus, fraudulent scheme".

Prosper Through Trading has been put into liquidation.

KaloBios Pharmaceuticals Inc. has filed for bankruptcy after the arrest of former CEO Martin Shkreli knocked the biotechnology company's brief revival off course.

A woman will spend the next 15 years paying back more than $30,000 she stole while working for a taxpayer-funded agency.

An Auckland man charged by the Serious Fraud Office of trying to bribe an Auckland Council employee has been found not guilty.

A reviled US pharmaceutical boss who caused a storm in September by jacking up the price of a life-saving drug by 5000 per cent has been arrested on fraud charges.

John Fagan's appeal has started after his failed scam, escape from prison, and suicide threat on the Paul Holmes show.

A conman stole the identities of victims of the Christchurch earthquake, the Pike River Mine explosion and the Carterton balloon disaster.