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.

The "Kuta cowboys" who offer friendship to tourists face an uncertain future, thanks to an uproar provoked by a warts-and-all documentary.

A law expert says Waitakere City Council is wrong to think it cannot help a school that wants a nearby brothel removed.

A school chairman calls for Waitakere City to step in after learning Rodney has a bylaw stopping a brothel opening near a school.

The owner of a brothel opposite a school says people should be more worried about children watching violent TV than his business.

A west Auckland intermediate school is outraged it can do nothing about a brothel which has opened across the road.

A bid to set up a North Shore version of a Brazilian "love motel" has struck trouble after neighbouring businesses withdrew offers to hire out their carparking spaces on busy nights.

Life insurers are asking people seeking insurance if they have sex with prostitutes.

A sex worker paid more over $2.4m by ASB fraudster Stephen Versalko is entitled to the money, a prostitutes' lobby group claims.

The prostitute given $2.4 million by fraudulent banker Stephen Versalko is far from the high end of the escort business.

The wife of the $18 million ASB fraudster has spoken of her pain as other family lash out at the big-spending criminal.

If it wasn't for Bernie Madoff, Stephen Versalko could still be stealing millions.

A bilingual sex information leaflet is being used to recruit international students and young Chinese women into the sex industry.