A Whangarei company director who fraudulently obtained more than $77,000 from the Accident Compensation Corporation by submitting false invoices will not have to pay the money back.

A cancer charity has suspended fundraising in New Zealand amid questions over how its money is spent.

Taxpayers are being warned not to fall for hoax phone calls from fraudsters telling them they are eligible for unclaimed money or a tax refund.

Hiding in the laundry chute of his luxury riverside apartment, Hohepa Morehu-Barlow fumed as he watched detectives rummage through his trove of designer belongings.

A registered charity dedicated to cancer research has donated less than 5 per cent of the $1.1 million it has collected from New Zealanders over four years.

Personal financial pressure has edged out greed as the number one motivation among perpetrators of fraud in New Zealand, according to a survey.

Dozens of racing clubs in the south have been ordered to hand over files as part of a Serious Fraud Office probe into pokie grants.

An immigration fraudster stripped of his citizenship and barred from New Zealand owes taxpayers more than $150,000.

A former Tauranga businessman is on trial defending allegations by his business partner that he siphoned $625,000 from their motorbike dealership.

Two trustees have been caught up in the Financial Markets Authority's case against six former Hanover directors or promoters and are now trying to remove themselves from the proceedings.

A Brisbane auction room was full to capacity as the trash and treasure of New Zealand man Hohepa "Joel" Morehu-Barlow went under the hammer.

A scammer has targeted people with items listed for sale online this week.

The Serious Fraud Office spent $195,000 on public relations advice in one year.

Eight men accused of an alleged Auckland Super City voter scam have had their trial shifted to the High Court.

Four Lombard Finance directors could face tougher sentences as their case goes to the Court of Appeal this week.

Scams weren't just appearing in email inboxes this past week. They were mailed to people around the country - all promising financial windfall, for a price.

Kiwis lost almost $4 million in scams last year, with rising fraudulent investment and dating schemes in particular contributing to the losses, according to govt figures.

Identity fraudsters "systematically and methodically" stole more than $500,000 in benefit scams before being caught last year.

Associate Social Development Minister Chester Borrows has come out this week, all testosterone engorged and righteous.

Countless politicians have been caught indulging secret vices, but few can claim an addiction as eccentric as that of the former US Congressman Jesse Jackson jnr.

A sense of deja vu pervaded the High Court at Auckland yesterday afternoon as a witness in the new Dominion Finance trial appeared again before a different judge.

The trial of three men associated with the collapsed firm Dominion Finance will restart today after the original High Court judge hearing the case stood down last week.

Two already jailed Capital+Merchant directors have this morning plead guilty to new Financial Markets Authority charges.

A High Court judge has stepped down from hearing the Dominion Finance case after it was revealed she was a partner at a law firm as one of the defendants.