A judge has frozen bank accounts and the $1.8 million property of a former Ports of Auckland manager.
The port company successfully obtained freezing orders against Paul Wayne Bainbridge on September 9.
Bainbridge, the High Court at Auckland heard this morning, recently resigned from a "managerial position" at the port.
Bainbridge and his former wife Margaret Anderson, during a hearing this morning, asked Justice Patricia Courtney to vary the freezing orders so they can access two of the frozen bank accounts to pay for living expenses.
Justice Courtney granted this request. She allowed Bainbridge to draw down $4000 a month and Anderson to draw down $10,000 a month.