The IRD is warning people to ignore a scam email which is purporting to offer people tax refunds.

Disgraced Bridgecorp boss Rod Petricevic and finance director Rob Roest returned to court today on SFO charges.

More than $2.2m has been transferred to Rod Petricevic's family trust from a Bridgecorp-related finance company of which he and his wife were the only directors.

A Bay of Plenty company director was today jailed for four years jail for tax evasion of more than $700,000.

Securities Commission member Simon Botherway has declared a potential conflict of interest in the Hubbard case.

Supporters of embattled financier Allan Hubbard are fighting to help clear his name and have kicked off with an advertising campaign.

Allan Hubbard believes he would not have been put into statutory management and investigated by the SFO if John Key had been in NZ.

South Canterbury Finance loaned money to two entities under investigation, its chairman says.

Standard & Poor's has lowered the credit rating of South Canterbury Finance, on concerns about Allan Hubbard.

Sth Canterbury Finance has stopped accepting deposits while it changes its prospectus.

Hubbard is defending his actions, while one investor says he had been told he was investing in a "trust fund".

One of the Waiouru war medal thieves is believed to have buried a treasure trove of cash built up over 20 years of crime on his parents' orchard.

Thousands of Kiwis are being conned by scams each year - and there's a reasonable chance you'll become one, according to new Govt figures.