A fraudster who stole $350,000 of ratepayer money faces court action to have a deportation order enforced so he can be sent back to South Africa.

A group charged by the SFO for allegedly operating a $1.6m ad invoice scam don't want the case transferred to the High Court.

An outbreak of card skimming has hit Auckland, with a number of ASB customers having their cards copied and accessed from Britain.

Steven Francis Younger has been jailed for two years and four months on 12 charges of defrauding three elderly people.

Repayments to investors in Aorangi Securities, one of the failed vehicles formerly run by Allan Hubbard, have climbed to 92 cents in the dollar.

A third of Kiwi businesses admit being victims of crime, however the real figure is probably much higher, a private investigator says.

A Labour party candidate in Auckland's first Super City elections will serve five months' community detention for his involvement in New Zealand's first electoral fraud.

A finance company's attempt to chase down a $300,000 loan taken out by a now-bankrupt and struck-off lawyer has been knocked back by a High Court judge

A New Zealand businessman lured to Europe in a $240 million email scam made a last minute complaint to police that led to some of the fraudsters being arrested.

Police are racing to catch a mystery man whose dealings have left several motel owners and duped tourists thousands of dollars out of pocket.

Sweeping changes to securities law have undermined the custodial sentences handed out to former directors of Lombard, the Supreme Court has heard.

A man facing charges over an alleged bogus company for jobseekers looking for work in Australian mines had his scheme endorsed by a fake international group.

People accessing sensitive information on their emails using unsecured public Wi-Fi could be putting themselves at risk of fraud, says the Banking Ombudsman.

Former SAC Capital Advisors LP fund manager Mathew Martoma, who was found guilty in the most lucrative insider-trading scheme ever, is to be sentenced on June 10.

A deaf Japanese composer has apologised for betraying his fans after admitting that he paid a "ghost composer" musician to write his pieces for him.

Stephen Versalko, the ASB Bank fraudster who stole $18 million, will be released from prison this month, but his wife has moved on.

The banker who stole $18 million from clients is "deeply remorseful and ashamed" about his offending, according to the Parole Board report which confirms his release.

A victim of an "incompetent" foreign exchange trader whose scheme inflicted losses of about $1.5m says his quality of life took a hit when his "significant" portfolio vanished.

The Child Cancer Foundation said it had received reports that scammers are phoning members of the public throughout New Zealand claiming to be collecting donations.

Earthquake claim fraudsters are still being hunted down almost three years on from the city's devastating quakes.

A Napier man will serve 300 hours community service, after he indicated he was interested in buying a plane, said he was a pilot, flew the aircraft - all without a licence.

Name suppression has been lifted on a Wellington accountant found guilty of providing false tax returns and misleading information to the Inland Revenue.

Leonardo DiCaprio is bringing his outrageous life – dwarf-tossing, drugs and all – to the big screen in The Wolf of Wall Street, but who is the real Jordan Belfort?

Australian lawyer Julie Read has taken the helm of the Serious Fraud Office at a time when its future has yet to be charted.

A controversial cancer charity will not face prosecution after it voluntarily de-registered as a charity during a probe into its spending.

Thousands of dollars worth of roading materials destined for a ratepayer-funded project were delivered to home renovations of a senior council manager, a whistleblower claims.