Failed Dominion Finance director Ann Butler has pleaded guilty to seven charges of making untrue statements to prospective investors.

The Serious Fraud Office will not prosecute anyone over the collapse of Hanover Finance because ... well, it's too hard.

A Serious Fraud Office investigation has found evidence inconsistent with former Allied Farmers chief executive Rob Alloway's complaint over the conduct of Hanover Finance, a source says.

Mark Hotchin has been keeping his head down. These days, he's a stay-at-home family man who enjoys a game of tennis and swimming.

It is good that we finally have the Serious Fraud Office's decision on Hanover. Obviously those under investigation will be relieved at the outcome. T

Former Hanover director Mark Hotchin has gone to court seeking some reimbursement for the millions of dollars he paid towards the construction of an Auckland mansion.

The Serious Fraud Office has stopped a long way short of issuing Hanover Finance and its key protagonists - Eric Watson and Mark Hotchin - a clean bill of health.

A life ban for a lawyer accused of stealing $3 million from clients was "the only appropriate penalty", the Law Society says.

From drug-dealing grannies with a penchant for diamond rings to white collar fraudsters, those who profit from crime are in the crosshairs of police.

Robert Whale expressed relief yesterday when he was acquitted in a Serious Fraud Office case, but the former Dominion Finance director still has to return to the High Court in June for separate Financial Markets Authority proceedings.

A man who escaped conviction following the Dominion Finance trial is likely have his name suppressed permanently.

A cancer charity under investigation over its spending has stopped paying its staff while it considers whether to resume operations in New Zealand.

Former Dominion Finance chief executive Paul William Cropp has been found guilty of four charges of theft by a person in a special relationship.

Former Dominion Finance and North South Finance director Terry Butler has died.

Personal financial pressure has edged out greed as the number one motivation among perpetrators of fraud in New Zealand, according to a survey.

Dozens of racing clubs in the south have been ordered to hand over files as part of a Serious Fraud Office probe into pokie grants.

The Serious Fraud Office spent $195,000 on public relations advice in one year.

Four Lombard Finance directors could face tougher sentences as their case goes to the Court of Appeal this week.

A British company offering huge financial returns to NZ investors is registered to a woman living in an offshore tax haven who was also linked to nearly 180 shell companies here.

A sense of deja vu pervaded the High Court at Auckland yesterday afternoon as a witness in the new Dominion Finance trial appeared again before a different judge.

The trial of three men associated with the collapsed firm Dominion Finance will restart today after the original High Court judge hearing the case stood down last week.

A High Court judge has stepped down from hearing the Dominion Finance case after it was revealed she was a partner at a law firm as one of the defendants.