The High Court has ruled embattled Act Party leader John Banks should stand trial on electoral fraud charges next year but the trial will likely be fast-tracked.

Agency failed to consider key evidence in $1.7 billion South Canterbury Finance investigation.

The way Frank DiPascali tells it, Bernard Madoff planted the seeds of deception for his $17 billion Ponzi scheme back in the 1970s.

Ross consistently showed good returns over two decades, even through the global financial crisis. It's incredible that with nearly half a billion of non-existent funds under his control, no one suspected a thing.

Police asset freezing action against two jailed Capital + Merchant directors is unprecedented.

A High Court judge has made restraining orders over property linked to two jailed Capital + Merchant Finance directors, with the police looking to eventually seize the assets.

Ponzi-scheme operator David Ross, who committed one of NZ's biggest financial swindles, has been handed more jail time than anyone else to face a Serious Fraud Office prosecution.

The man behind NZ's largest Ponzi scheme has been sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in jail - a punishment deemed too lenient by one of his victims.

A retired policeman and a chartered accountant are among 55 New Zealanders fleeced for $1.7 million by a Malaysia-based scam.

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

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

Lawyers for a Kiwi who embezzled millions of Australian taxpayer dollars have argued he shouldn't have been jailed for 14 years.

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.