The man at the centre of an alleged $3 million fraud case will discover his fate in two weeks.

Judge allows couple to travel to Australia for Christmas.

Loizos Michaels convinced people to "think big" and believe in his investment plans - before he fleeced them of more than $3 million, a court has heard.

The former chief executive of Christchurch Casino had plans to take over SkyCity with backing from National Party president Peter Goodfellow, says an alleged conman.

Two senior National Party figures were involved in plans to apply for a casino licence, an alleged conman says.

An alleged conman says a meeting in a Marcos racing car, in which he was said to have pocketed thousands of dollars from a film executive, never took place.

Loizos Michaels' allegedly managed to take over $3 million from his victims, including casino executives and owners of luxury apartments.

An alleged conman claimed the rich Australian Packer family was helping fund a major casino development worth "tens of millions of dollars'', a court has been told.

Bridgecorp was insolvent from at least February 2006 - a year and a half before it collapsed, its receiver alleges in civil action against three former directors.

Dozens of false passports have been discovered during security checks ahead of a new online passport renewal system introduced last week.

A Rotorua man has admitted benefit fraud which lasted more than 15 years.

A woman living in the country's most valuable state house cheated WINZ out of more than $88,000 by hiding her relationship for six years.

One of the biggest civil court actions in New Zealand legal history has been filed against former directors of the failed finance company Bridgecorp.

A 58-year-old Auckland women is facing numerous Crimes Act charges after she allegedly spent $1 million belonging to her sister.

Six people have been arrested over a $1.6 million invoice scam which involved the sale of advertising in magazines that did not exist or were not as widely circulated as claimed.

Jacqui Bradley was sentenced to seven years five months in jail today for a "classic Ponzi-scheme" that abused her victims' trust and left them "completely devastated".

Fraudster Jacqui Bradley - who swindled 28 investors out of around $15.5 million dollars - has been sentenced to seven years and five months in jail.