Former Hanover director Mark Hotchin has gone to court seeking some reimbursement for the millions of dollars he paid towards the construction of an Auckland mansion.

A life ban for a lawyer accused of stealing $3 million from clients was "the only appropriate penalty", the Law Society says.

The Serious Fraud Office says it will not be making any prosecutions around the collapse of Hanover Finance.

The Serious Fraud Office is expected to make an announcement regarding Hanover Finance early this week.

Card fraud is now big business. The victim may be in New Zealand; an offender may well be in Russia, Germany or Taiwan."Cash, they told us, was old hat. Paper money was an anachronism from another era, an idea whose time had passed.

After a week-long holiday relaxing in the Far North, Chloe Johnson panics when she tries to buy skincare products online and discovers the card is missing from its usual home inside her wallet.

Banks and police are trying to stay ahead of wily credit card fraudsters - but as long as banks mail pre-activated cards, the problem will persist.

A highly manipulative fraudster who conned a former boyfriend out of $80,000, wrecking his business and "destroying his life", has been jailed for four years.

An Auckland banker faces a jail term after stealing nearly $1 million from his clients.

Five Star group founder Neill Williams has been jailed for 3 years seven months for misleading investors.

When Five Star finance company boss Neill Williams is sentenced in court today, it will be just the latest stage in a series of misadventures, reports Hamish Fletcher.

A flamboyant New Zealander who posed as a Tahitian prince while he defrauded the Queensland government of A$16.6 million ($20 million) is appealing against his 14-year prison sentence.

New Zealand's biggest white-collar fraud trial has been delayed a month and won't start until next March.

The couple alleged to be at the centre of a $375,000 benefit scam can be named for the first time.

A globetrotting conman who came to New Zealand on a purported $69 million property spending spree will spend the next 14 years in prison in the United Kingdom.

It wasn't just Xtra emails being hit by scammers this week.

A couple alleged to have ripped off taxpayers to the tune of $375,000 in Work and Income payments have been allowed to keep their names secret for now.

A cancer charity under investigation over its spending has stopped paying its staff while it considers whether to resume operations in New Zealand.

A couple are alleged to have ripped off taxpayers by hundred of thousands of dollars in welfare payments for dental treatments that never happened.

Two people will appear in court in Auckland tomorrow charged over a benefit fraud involving up to $375,000.

The Government has welcomed leaked documents shining the light on shady politicians and arms dealers allegedly laundering their ill-gotten billions through Kiwi firms.

Two men accused of using fake passports and other documents are facing several forgery and deception charges.

Scammers are back to their old tricks, according to reports.

A former Goldman Sachs trader pleaded guilty to wire fraud yesterday, admitting that he caused his company to lose US$118 million ($140 million) in 2007 when he put US$8 billion at risk.

A former Tauranga businessman who siphoned $317,000 from a motorbike dealership was motivated by "greed, greed and more greed'', a judge has said.

Former Dominion Finance and North South Finance director Terry Butler has died.

A woman whose family lost more than $300,000 to a gold trader facing fraud charges is worried about hundreds of thousands she invested in a water-bottling project.

A New York judge has agreed to release Australian financial analyst and accused inside trader Trent Martin from jail, ending three months behind bars in Hong Kong and Brooklyn.