A successful campaign for the release of terminally ill fraudster Vicki Letele illustrates one of society's most difficult decisions, writes David Fisher.

Tens of thousands of dollars of council payments in early 2011 were described in court as the "very essence of corruption", as the

A former Ministry of Transport manager has pleaded guilty to defrauding the agency of $726,000.

Barrie George speaks in court of the first time he accepted bribes from a roading contractor, describing it as the start of a "merry-go-round".

The High Court heard today of lavish lunches a roading contractor treated council staff with one meal lasting 10 hours and costing $5500.

The country's first fraud film festival is being staged in Auckland to try spur discussion about detecting and preventing financial

Barrie George received his sentence today after earlier pleading guilty to corruption charges.

A former Ministry of Transport boss who allegedly stole more than $700,000 through false contracts has been denied bail. Joanne

Former Treaty negotiator has taken the stand in the High Court where he is accused of defrauding the Wellington Tenths Trust.

A former Ministry of Transport manager is back in New Zealand and has appeared in court on dishonesty charges.

Former Maori leader Ngatata Love has been taken to hospital as his fraud trial entered its second week.

A former tax agent who didn't pay his clients' tax to the Inland Revenue Department and falsified 250 GST and income tax returns in

Name suppression lifted in bribery case.

The Serious Fraud Office's theory about Ngatata Love's alleged fraud is wrong and payments made by developers through a company owned by his partner had no financial effect on a trust he chaired, the High Court in Wellington heard today.

A former Auckland Transport manager has pleaded guilty to corruption charges after admitting he took more than $100,000 in gifts from roading contractors.

Thousands of dollars of public money has gone missing - and Labour wants to know why the Transport Minister tried to keep the matter quiet.

An insurance broker who cooked documents to get credit spent his time in jail improving his culinary skills. In 2014, Grant Malcolm

A man described in 2010 as an investment manager whose company catered to the wealthy is being investigated by the SFO and FMA.

When the police raided the Auckland home of fraudster Eli Devoy, they found a "veritable Aladdin's cave of compromising material".

Eli Devoy faces jail over fraudulent scheme involving 11 Auckland properties.

Upper Hutt College was swindled out of $375,000 by its former executive officer Donald Hancox, who today pleaded guilty to 10 fraud charges.

Convicted South Canterbury Finance director Ed Sullivan has been censured by a lawyer's tribunal for the third time in less than a decade.

A top lawyer being double-booked isn't enough for Callaghan Innovation to put off a defamation and breach of contract lawsuit brought against it by Trends Publishing International.

Intueri Group's financial statements have been tagged by its auditor over the company's ability to continue as a going concern.

The Serious Fraud Office is investigating a property development company that built two central Auckland apartments.

When it comes to cracking down on people not paying what they should, beneficiaries are much easier to go after, writes Paul Little.

The family of a student who died at Intueri's diving school in 2014 will receive $150,000 from the company.

SFO director Julie Read had nothing to say in response to fresh criticism that the organisation mismanaged its investigation into South Canterbury Finance.