Complaints about Matthew Blomfield, controversial businessman and bete noire of blogger Cameron Slater, will be referred to the police and the registrar of companies by a liquidator probing one of his collapsed companies.
Blomfield was the sole director of property company Plan Z Investment, which collapsed on December 14, 2012 when it was unable to pay a $100,000 statutory demand.
Liquidator David Petterson, of Forensic Accounting Services, in a report on Plan Z outlined what he described as a "torturous process" to unpick the affairs of the company.
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Blomfield told the New Zealand Herald he rejected Petterson's conclusions.
"The liquidator got it totally wrong. His conclusions that he draws in his report are without basis, and he doesn't back them up," he said.
Blomfield said he would request Petterson revise his report.
Petterson's report said Plan Z had acquired three properties in Dunedin, and concentrated on what happened to $87,230 in surplus proceeds following their sale in February 2010.
Blomfield allegedly told Peterson the sum had been paid to a company called Abraham Black, run by Blomfield's former Hell Pizza partner, Warren Powell.
But the liquidator said the funds did not appear to have been paid directly to the company.
"None of the funds were paid to a bank account of Plan Z. None of the funds were paid into the bank account of Abraham Black," the report said.
Petterson said Blomfield told him, when challenged, that the funds had instead been paid into his personal bank accounts, and that half had been withdrawn as cash and paid to Powell, while he kept the remainder for himself.
"The reason he took the money was that he had his own creditor problems at the time and was facing his own creditor crisis," Petterson said of Blomfield's explanation.
Blomfield was bankrupted in June 2010.
Petterson considered Blomfield's action could amount to breaches of the Companies Act and he would be complaining to the Registrar of Companies.
He also said the movement of cash could be construed as "theft by person in a special relationship" and he would lay a complaint with the police.
Blomfield is the complainant in a prosecution of Whaleoil blogger Slater brought by the director of human rights proceedings alleging privacy breaches, and the businessman is also suing Slater in the High Court for defamation.
Read the liquidators report here: