People being investigated by police over serious fraud-related offences or gang crimes will no longer have the right to remain silent, under a Govt bill.

Australian organised crimebusters have warned that cyber crime is 'exploding'.

A rogue finance company boss bought secret life insurance cover on hundreds of unwitting people - to win a $500,000 jackpot every time one of them died. Their families received $20,000.

The Statutory Managers for Hubbard's say investors could receive only 60 per cent of what was on their March 2010 statements.

Thieves posing as bank workers have swindled an 81-year-old Franklin man out of his savings, another in a series of elderly people who have been targeted by scammers in south Auckland.

When Stephen Wilce submitted his CV for the job as the Defence Force's chief scientist, he failed to declare a job he had been fired from the previous year for incompetence.

The Serious Fraud Office has announced it will not press charges against the Blue Chip group of companies, citing a lack of evidence, but is probing two other failed finance companies.

A military court of inquiry into the hiring of disgraced Defence scientist Stephen Wilce has found the appointment process was flawed.

An ex-finance company director has admitted SFO theft charges - the first major conviction from the finance company sector collapse.

The Serious Fraud Office's investigation into Natural Dairy will damage its reputation but not the Crafar farms deal itself, the company says.