The Serious Fraud Office expects to make a decision within weeks over bringing charges against the directors of Bridgecorp.

The new head of the SFO has set a deadline of March 31 to decide if charges will be laid against people over their finance company activities.

Police are investigating a complaint by two people that they were duped into believing they had been recruited by the SIS.

Court reporter Andrew Koubaridis continues his week-long look at some of last year's most high-profile trials.

A Kiwi conman posing as an international banker is called an 'economic danger to the community' as he's jailed for multi-million dollar fraud.

A man who lived in a state house while he rented out two properties of his own has been sentenced for defrauding the taxpayer.

A former sports star embezzled $450,000 then gambled it away.

Westpac's runaway millionaires are a step closer to keeping the cash after the bank bungled an attempt to recover it.

It has been a bad year for the controversial Church of Scientology.

NZ's biggest benefit fraudster manipulated a web of offshore accounts from prison in a bid to hide the $3.4m he stole from taxpayers.