New powers allowing welfare officials to secretly approach beneficiaries' banks or workplaces if they suspected them of committing fraud are being questioned.

Business owners are being warned to watch out for overseas money laundering scams, which are targeting New Zealand's small businesses.

A director of failed firm Rockforte Finance has been sentenced to four years in jail while another got 11 months' home detention and 200 hours' community work

An accountant has been struck off for scamming Inland Revenue out of $280,000 by doctoring his employer's tax returns to gain false donation rebates.

A blonde-haired, blue-eyed seven-year-old girl has been put into care after being taken from a Roma family in Ireland.

An Auckland property developer defending fraud allegations told a journalist in 2009 that he'd misled a trustee company caught up in an alleged $50 million loan scam, a court has heard.

A Labour Party candidate in the first Super City elections denies he committed electoral fraud.

The former boss at a Canterbury clothing maker that kitted out some of our sporting heroes has today pleaded guilty to a multi-million dollar "top end" fraud.

The fraud trial of the former boss at Canterbury clothing manufacturer Lane Walker Rudkin's is due to begin in Christchurch today.

A second senior manager has left Auckland Transport weeks after his hard drive was seized as a major corruption inquiry continues.

A trusted staff member charged with committing a long-running fraud against a freight company says the alleged stolen sum is a grossly over-inflated figure.

The Serious Fraud Office has executed search warrants in its probe of people linked to Auckland Transport.

The second trial of a bankrupt Auckland property developer facing fraud charges over an alleged $50 million loan scam is due to begin this week after the first was aborted.

The last of the Rockforte trio facing fraud charges has pleaded guilty, wrapping up another failed finance company case.

A former North Shore City Council employee has been sent to prison after signing off more than 150 invoices for road and berm maintenance work that was never completed.

Former Rockforte Finance director John Patrick Gardner has plead guilty to five Crimes Act charges in the High Court at Gisborne today.

"The plan is hatched and sounds sensible,'' New Zealand's Darrell Read told Tokyo trader Tom Hayes - an alleged co-conspirator in the Libor rates rigging scandal

A woman who stole more than $450,000 from a prominent Auckland couple has been sent to prison for three years and four months.

A New Zealand man is accused of being part of an international scam where brokers promised colleagues kickbacks of champagne, curries and a Ferrari in exchange for trying to influence bank rates.

A serial fraudster who worked as a prostitute while on home detention has today been jailed for two years, six months.

A New Zealander working for a major world banking company has been charged by US prosecutors in New York for allegedly taking part in the massive LIBOR rates rigging scandal.