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<i>Geoff Hardy</i>: Dropping into red brings out managers' true colours
Recessions test ethics and morality.

Hubbard supporters appeal to PM
Supporters of businessman Alan Hubbard have written to John Key urging him to reconsider the Government's approach to inquiries into Mr Hubbard's affairs.

Five Star Finance directors charged
The Serious Fraud Office has laid more than 100 charges against four former directors of failed lender Five Star Finance, carrying a maximum penalty of seven years apiece.

Success will be more investment outside property - Botherway
The man overseeing the creation of a new integrated financial markets regulator hopes, it will help shift savings tied up in housing somewhere else.

SFO probes childcare centres
Early childhood provider KidiCorp is the focus of a Serious Fraud Office inquiry over $30 million of taxpayer money.

SFO drops inquiry into multimillion-dollar scam
A Wellington man accused of duping at least 30 New Zealanders out of millions of dollars appears to have got away with it.

Fraud probe: Where is investors' $18m?
Dozens of people who invested with an Auckland couple have been told they are unlikely to see their money again.

SFO launch new Blue Chip probe
The Serious Fraud Office is probing a Blue Chip franchise in the South Island.

White-collar crime cases explode
White-collar crime in the first six months of this year hit a record high of $72m, says the Fraud Barometer.

Hubbard says wife shamed at checkout
Troubled financier Allan Hubbard claims his wife, Jean, was unable to buy groceries worth $23 when he was first put into statutory management.

Hubbard supporters push bandwagon on to internet
Thousands of people using the internet to their support for embattled Timaru businessman Allan Hubbard.

Director fights for help from receivers
Receivers for National Finance 2000 could be ordered to provide its directors with information to help with their defence against Companies Office charges.

Police find $150,000 boat hidden by fraudster
On the day DHB fraudster Michael Swann was sentenced police found a boat hidden in a shed.