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.

A jailed South Auckland business coach - who has already received almost $250,000 in legal aid - is continuing his battle with the courts.

A Kiwi widower who was scammed out of $1m by an Australian online dating service is living in virtual poverty.

A New Zealand attorney at a New York law firm has become embroiled in a major insider trading case which could see a former Australian mate jailed for 20 years.

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.

Self-described business coach Shane Wenzel has been sent to jail for three years for mortgage fraud.

The victims of fraudster Brent Murray say they are happy to see some justice done, even though they believe they will never get their money back.

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.