Swiss banking giant UBS has agreed to pay $1.5b in fines for its role in trying to manipulate the key LIBOR interest rate.

Conman Loizos Michaels has been sentenced to eight years in prison after he "manipulated his victims for greed''.

Former property developer and insurance broker Marcus Friedlander has been sentenced to seven months home detention after he attempted to hoodwink investors.

The former high-flying barrister was one of a select few to be honoured with a Queen's Diamond Jubilee SPCA Volunteer Medal at the Government House ceremony, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to animal cruelty prevention.

A Mosgiel man who fleeced long-time friends and members of his church of $300,000 has been sent to prison for three years and four months on fraud charges.

The police-organised crime squad that carried out the Kim Dotcom raid has given briefings to a high-powered group charged with protecting New Zealand's "national security".

The New Zealand Law Society is investigating a complaint over the way a former top barrister and prosecutor was treated in the Auckland District Court this week.

A man was cheated out of inheriting his father's $400,000 life insurance by his grandmother and another woman who spent some of the money, a court has heard.

A financial adviser stole $4.7m from investors and spent some of the money on a lavish lifestyle that included three Porsche sports cars.

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.

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

One of the criminal figures depicted in the Australian TV series Underbelly planned retribution against confidence trickster Loizos Michaels' partner in crime.

Serial conman Loizos Michaels cheated his own parents-in-law out of $50,000 on his way to stealing $3 million from other friends and acquaintances, his wife has revealed.

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.