A controversial cancer charity will not face prosecution after it voluntarily de-registered as a charity during a probe into its spending.

Thousands of dollars worth of roading materials destined for a ratepayer-funded project were delivered to home renovations of a senior council manager, a whistleblower claims.

A bankrupt property developer who used fronts and false information to borrow money as part of a $50 million loan scheme has been found guilty this morning.

Agency failed to consider key evidence in $1.7 billion South Canterbury Finance investigation.

Police asset freezing action against two jailed Capital + Merchant directors is unprecedented.

A High Court judge has made restraining orders over property linked to two jailed Capital + Merchant Finance directors, with the police looking to eventually seize the assets.

Ponzi-scheme operator David Ross, who committed one of NZ's biggest financial swindles, has been handed more jail time than anyone else to face a Serious Fraud Office prosecution.

The man behind NZ's largest Ponzi scheme has been sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in jail - a punishment deemed too lenient by one of his victims.

Jailed Bridgecorp director Rob Roest still regards himself as innocent, three judges said today as they tossed out his appeal.

A month ago Simon Everett was driving a Lexus. Now, since family company Blacktop Construction went into receivership, he's having to ask for handouts to survive.

An Auckland property developer defending fraud allegations told a journalist in 2009 that he'd misled a trustee company caught up in an alleged $50 million loan scam, a court has heard.

Malcolm Mayer told a journalist in 2009 that he'd misled a trustee company caught in an alleged $50 million loan scam, a court heard today.

The Serious Fraud Office is investigating a North Shore residential property development deal after angry investors cried out that places were never built.

A second senior manager has left Auckland Transport weeks after his hard drive was seized as a major corruption inquiry continues.

The Serious Fraud Office has executed search warrants in its probe of people linked to Auckland Transport.

A trustee company caught in an alleged loan scam advanced $21 million to a property developer or his associates after concerns with a set of borrowers were discussed by staff, a court heard yesterday.

The second trial of a bankrupt Auckland property developer facing fraud charges over an alleged $50 million loan scam is due to begin this week after the first was aborted.

The last of the Rockforte trio facing fraud charges has pleaded guilty, wrapping up another failed finance company case.

Former Rockforte Finance director John Patrick Gardner has plead guilty to five Crimes Act charges in the High Court at Gisborne today.

"The plan is hatched and sounds sensible,'' New Zealand's Darrell Read told Tokyo trader Tom Hayes - an alleged co-conspirator in the Libor rates rigging scandal

A Christchurch financial adviser whose clients lost $6 million in Ross Asset Management's collapse has been censured and fined $4000.

A corruption inquiry at Auckland Transport has widened as a manager under suspicion has gone on sick leave.

The incoming boss of the Serious Fraud Office has a "strong pedigree in criminal prosecutions" and is a great fit for the job, says her counterpart at the FMA.

The new boss for the Serious Fraud Office has been named as Australian Julie Read.

Auckland Transport has sacked a senior manager amid an investigation into allegations of corruption over roading contracts.

An Auckland financial adviser accused of stealing $3 million of investors' money has been charged today.