A financial adviser has been sentenced to six years and two months in prison after stealing $4.7 million from investors, many of whom were family and friends.

Michelle Hawke lived in the country's most expensive state house and paid only $90 a week - and despite her claims of remorse the judge sentencing her for benefit fraud was unconvinced.

A visit to New Zealand by the man who blew the whistle on Bernie Madoff is "timely", says the SFO's acting chief executive.

A US financial fraud investigator who blew the whistle on a multi-billion Ponzi scheme run by Bernie Madoff will speak in New Zealand early next year.

An Auckland woman who lived in New Zealand's most expensive state house has been sentenced to nine months home detention for benefit fraud.

A well-paid doctor has been sentenced in court for attempting to squeeze a little more money out of ACC.

Loizos Michaels could talk the shirt off your back and the money from your bank account.

Australian authorities will get the full cooperation of New Zealand investigators if they choose to extradite the conman convicted of a $3 million fraud.

A victim of Loizos Michaels clapped as the "brazen" conman was led into the cells.

A fallen property hotshot wants to move on after escaping a prison sentence for faking documents to try to save his friend from bankruptcy.

The Serious Fraud Office is investigating a US-based funds provider with links to the case of fraudster Jacqui Bradley.

The alleged conman who carried out "bold frauds on a grand scale" says he is the victim.

An eighty-three-year-old's theft of almost $215,000 in benefit payments was only uncovered when she was seriously injured in a crash with a fuel tanker.

The dentist who extracted $50,000 of taxpayer money for made-up appointments that included tooth-pulling has escaped a jail sentence.

The SFO is investigating fund manager David Ross and his firm after receivers found records for $10.2 million of the $449.6 million he purportedly managed.