A failed magazine publisher who defrauded Heartland Bank and fleeced his own sister has been jailed for 3 years.

Bernard Madoff's victims are getting an early holiday treat as the trustee unwinding his fraud begins sending out a total of $1.2 billion in funds.

A couple convicted of fleecing almost $1 million from the taxpayer between them by not paying GST are still living a life of luxury.

An ex-FMA analyst is facing a further nine charges, including for allegedly providing a forged job contract with Fonterra to rent an apartment.

Failed Crafar Farms bidder and fraud case defendant May Wang was back in the High Court at Auckland today.

Are Serious Fraud Office investigators taking a softer approach, or is it just that its targets are becoming more co-operative?

It is alleged McDonald filed about 250 false tax returns in order to receive money from the IRD

Insurance fraud spikes whenever a new tech upgrade happens such as the release of a new iPhone.

Immigration authorities say "widespread concerns" have been raised over false or misleading work visa applications involving Philippines nationals.

The Serious Fraud Office is investigating an exporter of infant milk powder and manuka honey that receivers say collapsed owing more than $1 million.

De Beers scientists can make near-flawless diamonds in a lab, but they will never sell you one.

A Whangarei woman has been extradited from Australia after an exhaustive 18-month process to place her before the courts.

Despite money not growing on trees, gardening seems to be the most popular way for NZ's white collar criminals to while away the hours behind bars.

The Registrar of Companies is making the rare bid of extending the statutory company director ban of a convicted Waikato fraudster to 10 years due to the seriousness of his offending.

Colourful conman and convicted fraudster Wayne Eaglesome appears to be trying to sell land on Waiheke that he doesn't yet own.

A Financial Markets Authority analyst has been charged with forging an academic record to get his job and then stealing nearly $210,000. in a scheme.

A new campaign by US prosecutors to pursue suspect money launderers sees agents luring the service providers out of their overseas havens to the US.

A woman who ripped off taxpayers for more than $300,000 over 17 years would take 587 years to pay back the stolen funds.

The heist has been been described as "if Oceans 11 had been masterminded by a Bond villain".

A group of mostly Nelson investors face losing $2m after the collapse of a Colombian gold mining scheme.

The fraudsters have been calling residents and stating that viruses had been detected on their home computers.

Bogus Microsoft employees have stolen thousands of dollars in a 24-hour sting in New Zealand.

A Dunedin man's affair has ruined his marriage, destroyed his family's financial security and caused his defrauded wife to question the past decade of her life.

Nicknamed "rain man" for for his incredible recall, this is the story of Tom Hayes' nine-year Libor rigging saga.

A judge "sent a message" to the banking industry for its "dishonest and wrong" conduct after he sentenced a trader convicted of rigging the Libor rate to 14 years in prison.

An alleged associate of a New Zealand resident accused of trying to manipulate international banking rates has been jailed for 14 years.

A former Citibank and UBS trader is going to jail after a jury found him guilty of masterminding the manipulation of the key Libor interest rate.

An Auckland Council boss who splashed out more than $900 on restaurant meals and drinks on his work credit card has sparked a warning about fraud risks.

He told his would-be victim he was off to the Caribbean, but there were no cocktails or bikini-clad women where Michael Richard Smith was heading.