The Serious Fraud Office has laid charges against financial adviser David Ross, who is alleged to have operated a $400 million Ponzi scheme.

The former Lombard directors, including Sir Douglas Graham, are heading to the Supreme Court over their convictions for making false statements in a prospectus.

Belgrave Finance director Stephen Smith has been sentenced to four years in jail.

The former director and owner of an Auckland media agency is facing 23 deception and dishonesty charges laid by the Serious Fraud Office.

A Remuera businesswoman allegedly headed a $9.2 million mortgage fraud scheme that involved her siblings, friends and eleven Auckland properties.

Two women and five men have been charged this morning over an alleged mortgage fraud scheme involving over $9 million.

Former Dominion Finance chief executive Paul William Cropp has been sentenced to two years and seven months in prison.

Dominion Finance director Robert Barry Whale has this morning pleaded guilty and been convicted on separate charges of misleading investors.

The chief executive of Kim Dotcom's latest start-up, the boss of the Financial Markets Authority, a former police detective and a Buddhist nun are at a conference beginning in Auckland today.

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.

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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.

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

The Serious Fraud Office says it will not be making any prosecutions around the collapse of Hanover Finance.

The Serious Fraud Office is expected to make an announcement regarding Hanover Finance early this week.

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.