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.

TV One News breached broadcasting standards when it wrongly identified an Auckland bar as having been targeted by fraud.

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.

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.

A High Court judge has stepped down from hearing the case of three men associated with Dominion Finance.

Two jailed Capital+Merchant finance directors are hoping to take their case to the Supreme Court, the Herald understands.

The trial of three men associated with the collapsed firm Dominion Finance was adjourned just after lunch yesterday for reasons the Herald is prohibited from reporting.

A former IRD employee has been sentenced to two years and five months in prison on dozens of fraud charges spanning nearly six years.

The SFO has spent longer considering charges after the Hanover collapse than in the case of any other finance company it has probed.

A Far North benefit fraudster has agreed to repay nearly $100,000 but it will take him nearly 200 years.

Artur Baptista da Silva's outspoken attacks on Portugal's austerity cuts made the bespectacled 61-year-old one of the country's leading media pundits last year.

Samoa tops the list of countries with citizens who have committed immigration fraud in New Zealand.

Just eight people have had their refugee status revoked after a long-running saga involving a global people-smuggling ring.

ACC fraudsters have ripped off taxpayers by more than $10 million in the past four years.