Asian women lured to NZ with cash offers to work in the sex industry are being forced to work in slave-like conditions, a Herald investigation finds.

Why is infidelity so rife when the risks associated with affairs and illicit sex are so high?

A former prostitute, who was paid $2.5 million by ASB fraudster Stephen Versalko, was in the Auckland High Court this week to make a deal with the bank over the money.

nzherald.co.nz readers have shown strong support for a prostitute being sued by ASB for the money she was given by fraudster Stephen Versalko.

Bernie Madoff and his NZ equivalent Stephen Versalko, have a lot in common: both ordinary family guys with credible, crumpled facades.

Some Kiwi ladies are hoping for a different kind of score when the soccer World Cup kicks off this weekend in South Africa.

ASB Bank is trying to reclaim up to $2.55 million given by convicted bank fraudster Stephen Versalko to an Auckland prostitute, during his nine year scam.

A resident's complaint about "strange men knocking at his door" has led to a council using a technical clause to close a brothel.

The High Court orders an ASB Bank adviser to repay millions of dollars stolen from his employer.

The ASB is suing an escort to recover some of the $17.8 million stolen by fraudster Stephen Versalko over nine years.

The blonde in a tight, low-cut evening dress slid on to a barstool next to me and began the chat: Where are you from? How long are you here? Where are you staying?"

Stephen Versalko duped ASB Bank customers into parting with $18mby writing dodgy statements that didn't even carry the bank's logo.